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But my existing mice, keyboards, monitors, printers, and more don't use those ports.
So now people get to carry around an external hub just to plug in damn thumbdrive.
Those threads are so funny. One day, we see people talking against planned obsolescence and the environmental impacts of the tech industry. The other day, the same people are cheering for removal of backwards compatibility and happy to throw away their stuff to buy new ones, and even making peer pressure on the ones who don't do the same so they feel "antiquated".
USB-C keyboards & mice have been around for years. I switched to USB-C almost half a decade ago and haven't looked back.
Regardless, you can easily mod your existing gear to USB-C with just a screwdriver and a soldering gun (or electrical tape if you're lazy like me).
So your solution is for people to either throw away perfectly-good products (Logitech mice still don't have USB-C receivers btw), or learn to hack something together?
My laptop from 2018 ago is no thicker than a modern laptop and managed to have 2 USB-A, 2 USB-C, a power adapter port (though it also supports PD), an SD card reader, and a headphone jack.
Now that PD is a better standard and power bricks had no standard, I can see dropping the power port for another Type-C port for a lower-power laptop that can't draw more power than PD can deliver, but there's no justification for dropping the other ports that are "still" standards being used by new devices.
Or just permanently put a c to a adapter on the USB cable of the mouse?