I was arguing for the flip side of your comment: that in practice VGA is still supported by most display equipment and is often used, and that including support

I was arguing for the flip side of your comment: that in practice VGA is still supported by most display equipment and is often used, and that including support for a still widely used port is not all that surprising. Maybe five or ten years from now (given long lifetimes of equipment in question) it would be surprising to still have a VGA port. I agree that docks and adapters are perfectly fine, at least for me and my use cases. But it's not unreasonable for some users to desire direct support for a widely used port. I've had cases where adapters went bad and created issues - the most serious one was a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter which caused display artefacts. But I've never yet had a VGA adapter cause issues. To each their own I guess.