There has just never been a large enough variety of connectors for each application to have an ideally specialized standard. Especially the greater number of p

There has just never been a large enough variety of connectors for each application to have an ideally specialized standard. Especially the greater number of pins, the wider variety of possible uses. But USB is only 4 pins. IIRC when USB first appeared on consumer devices, Radio Shack was still going, but USB was the first consumer connector that they did NOT have a do-it-yourself solderable or crimpable cable terminal for, nor any truly appropriate cable. And they never did appear as years went by. You had to cut your cables in half and splice them to appropriate extensions if you wanted to take advantage of the full 92 foot cable-length maximum under USB 1.