Just to counter the usual tone of threads like this, I'll say that I'm super happy having finally jumped the ship and bought an used "real dock" (ie not another

Just to counter the usual tone of threads like this, I'll say that I'm super happy having finally jumped the ship and bought an used "real dock" (ie not another hub from Aliexpress) from Dell - one single cable and I get the Macbook charging, wired ethernet, my usb peripherals and 4k 60hz display. But then I'm from the time of parallel-port printers and dial-up internet, so maybe my bar is lower...