I don't think if anybody else in 2016 had created a 'pro' laptop with no usb2/3 and no hdmi and no sd and max 16gb of ram they would've gotten a pass either. No

I don't think if anybody else in 2016 had created a 'pro' laptop with no usb2/3 and no hdmi and no sd and max 16gb of ram they would've gotten a pass either. Not to mention the oversight of not being able to connect/charge the iphone without adapters, which is also very hard to see as anything but an oversight. If this had been a macbook update I don't think there would have been as much a backlash, but a macbook pro is not the same thing as a macbook in terms of expectations for ports or power