I couldn't disagree more - I've had FAR more problems with HDMI than with USB C/Thunderbolt. Sticking with quality cables and not the bargain basement specials

I couldn't disagree more - I've had FAR more problems with HDMI than with USB C/Thunderbolt. Sticking with quality cables and not the bargain basement specials off of Amazon (or hell, anything remotely related to electronics on Amazon) is probably the single greatest critical success factor here. As for the charging - as others point out I put that as more a software problem. That devices don't more clearly and prominently display this kind of information is definitely an issue - but once again, make sure the physical layer (your chargers and cables) are high quality and just about everything you complain about is a non-issue. I can't wait for non-USB C stuff to slowly die out. Will be nice to finally have one physical connection (that doesn't suck!) for pretty much everything I need to do.