I feel your pain with regard to loosing the lightning connector. For me I guess I’d have to buy a new proprietary cable for my car. The cost of replacing all y

I feel your pain with regard to loosing the lightning connector. For me I guess I’d have to buy a new proprietary cable for my car. The cost of replacing all your stuff is one of the consequences of buying things with proprietary connectors. I have an Apple USB Superdrive. It looks great but was purposely designed only to work with a MacBook. No reason for that except to keep me in the “ecosystem”. Apple could release a Lightning to USB-C dongle for you. That would allow you to reuse your Lightning pencil ...if they wanted to.