I would use an adapter for that use case. The wiring of the ports on a new design is straightforward; you are using the same pins if it's USB 2.0 (As the artic

I would use an adapter for that use case. The wiring of the ports on a new design is straightforward; you are using the same pins if it's USB 2.0 (As the article says), plus two extra connections that go to a resistors. If you can find ports that use the same footprint, feasible, but probably not worth it. Desoldering a port is a pain because you have to get all the pins to melting temperature concurrently, and you'd have to figure out how to wire those CC pins.