Because it's convenient to carry around thin and light notebooks. Especially the ones that flip around to a tablet, making it easy to sketch ideas with a stylu

Because it's convenient to carry around thin and light notebooks. Especially the ones that flip around to a tablet, making it easy to sketch ideas with a stylus. In addition, it becomes annoying to plug in multiple cables every time you wish to dock. USB, audio, power, ethernet, and video. USB-C is much more convenient when it works. I went through a similar churn as the author and finally settled on a StarTech-branded hub that has few bugs. Now, when I want to switch my setup between my work and personal laptops, I just unplug a single cable and switch devices. I can even connect my phone to the dock if I need to type a lot in an app, download a lot of data to it, or connect external storage.