The more i look at it the more this latest generation of USB seems massively overengineered. The initial design of the C plugs looks like it was intended as a

The more i look at it the more this latest generation of USB seems massively overengineered. The initial design of the C plugs looks like it was intended as a simple mechanically reversible 3.0 plug. But then someone decided that if they made both sides active, they could ram video data down it at 4k+ rates. So now rather than just have pin on one side of the socket side, there are pin on both and the devices have to figure out what way is up by sending handshakes. Never mind that the C-plug spec have their own little details about power delivery that overlap that of the Power Delivery spec. Oh, and each OEM can decide if they want to use C ports with or without 3.x speeds and PD...