Expensive doesn't equal great either. My ThinkPad thunderbolt hub, which is not cheap by any standards, can't route HDMI without randomly restarting itself ever

Expensive doesn't equal great either. My ThinkPad thunderbolt hub, which is not cheap by any standards, can't route HDMI without randomly restarting itself every few minutes. Connecting the same cable directly to my ThinkPad laptop works perfectly fine. Sort of defeats the whole point of buying a hub. I have sort of given up on hopes of getting a high quality hub - it's a money sink