Honestly, this is one part where I don't see the big deal. Currently for me, your list of examples is already three dongles (minidp-hdmi for hijacking hotel TV

Honestly, this is one part where I don't see the big deal. Currently for me, your list of examples is already three dongles (minidp-hdmi for hijacking hotel TVs when I'm travelling, minidp-dvi for my monitor at the office, minidp-vga for the projectors in the meetings rooms), and five different USB cables - usb-B for the usb hub in my monitor, lightning for my phone, micro-usb for my SD card, mini-usb for my camera, and micro-usb3 for my harddrive). Everyone's annoyed that they're replacing 'The One Plug' with usb-c. But 'The One Plug' is a myth. For me, the only difference between a different connector for each device, and a different dongle for each device, is what spin you're putting on it. Either way I'm still going to need 8 cables in the bottom of my bag. The donglepocalypse is just the same list s/usb/usb-c/.