Both Lenovo and Nintendo did that initially because in the relatively early days of USB-C there had been quite a bunch of incorrectly produced USB-C cables on A

Both Lenovo and Nintendo did that initially because in the relatively early days of USB-C there had been quite a bunch of incorrectly produced USB-C cables on Amazone which kill your device. Through it is without question pretty user hostile that they haven't updated their design wrt. this aspect in recent years.