> God no please stop with getting the government involved, if the last 2 years have not convinced you how much they are all dim wits then I don't know what wil

> God no please stop with getting the government involved, if the last 2 years have not convinced you how much they are all dim wits then I don't know what will. Haha, tell me you're from the US without telling me from the US. Government regulation in this sector is exactly what it needs. Hell, it's one of the main reasons we managed to standardize on micro-USB for mobile devices; it was a flexible enough standardization that the industry has been able to switch to USB-C as a whole without running foul of it. Right now there's clearly an incentive for companies to push these shitty features, whereas many consumers would consider that a downside. Regulations don't mean the complete removal of the free market, but rather the incorporation of that kind of externality into the market.