And everyone went ahead and purchased it anyway.

Companies always chase profit, if people would stop buying shittified products companies would stop enshittifying them.

Look how they massacred my boy.

Just one port to rule them all

Even Lenovo is doing it with Thinkpads, the t14 gen 6 has soldiered ram and only two USB A ports

This aged like milk, the newest MacBooks have magsafe

And look how much thinner. A large part of that is the need for physical ports which although they may loom small on the outside, also take up space inside for the boards that convert signals. Now those conversions happen in the dongles if needed.

The real problem is that USB didn't implement a hub standard so most hubs have had to use old hub standards and just have a single USB-C connector and the rest USB-A, hdmi, etc. There haven't been many purely USB-C to USB-C hubs to allow for connecting lots of USB-C devices to a single port and usually they end up losing features or splitting bandwidth instead of sharing the full bandwidth.