The alternative being that Apple must support every port forever? If they were moving from one uncommon proprietary port to another uncommon proprietary port,

The alternative being that Apple must support every port forever? If they were moving from one uncommon proprietary port to another uncommon proprietary port, I'd understand the beef. Most of the issues described in this screed are about "legacy" devices not being connectable via USB-C, though. Which... yeah, that's the issue with older devices. There's 3.5mm audio disappearing in favor of proprietary Lightning, but that's hardly "Apple's dongle problem isn't getting any better." Thanks to widespread uptake of AirPods, that one is getting slightly better. And it's a single dingle, for the subset of iPhone users who use wired audio. Everything else, it's transition. I mean, I'm typing this on a laptop that uses a dongle to connect an external 4K monitor, but that's because the external 4K monitor doesn't do USB-C (or Thunderbolt over USB-C) at least as much as it's because the MacBook doesn't support HDMI. I'm personally not looking forward to the day iPhones switch to USB-C as well, but I know it's coming, and I won't complain too much.