I can tell you that, as a consumer who has wired a lot of small office and home Ethernet, I've never seen a failure like that. On the other hand, I've seen lots

I can tell you that, as a consumer who has wired a lot of small office and home Ethernet, I've never seen a failure like that. On the other hand, I've seen lots of unexpected behavior with USB. I don't doubt your sincerity, but the reality is that very few consumers have to rebuild data centers. Lots of them need to power personal devices with shared USB cables and power supplies.