Ya there’s obviously a balance between backwards compatibility and jumping to the new best thing. When they launched the lightning port in 2012 they said it’d b

Ya there’s obviously a balance between backwards compatibility and jumping to the new best thing. When they launched the lightning port in 2012 they said it’d be the connector for the next decade, and changing too quickly would have upset people who have a bunch of lightning stuff but no, or not as many, USB-C cables. There’s a balance. They’ve been rumored to be heading to USB-C for a few years (before EU action) and the EU doesn’t require the switch until next year, so this was technically not required by the new rules. My best guess is that they were moving to USB-C anyway and at most the EU rule moved it up a year or two but who knows