With all due respect, legislature will be passed whether you care about it or not and irrespective of what percentage of the population even knows what a lightn

With all due respect, legislature will be passed whether you care about it or not and irrespective of what percentage of the population even knows what a lightning charger is or isn't. Besides the proprietary equipment, it was causing a sizable amount of electronic waste. I don't see what you're so angry about. Again you have not given any source stating that Apple was going to switch to USB-C by itself. (even if they did 10 years from now the EU made them speed it up which is notable)