> More evidence that USB-C is an insanely overengineered spec. Cables should be dumb pipes, not devices with their own active circuitry. Why, to what end? They

> More evidence that USB-C is an insanely overengineered spec. Cables should be dumb pipes, not devices with their own active circuitry. Why, to what end? They don't add any noticeable amount of cost to the cables and it's a whole lot better of a solution for consumers then requiring all cables to carry 5 amps and thus making them thicker. > Did someone imagine a use-case where they wanted to detect the orientation of the cable? They didn't imagine anything, USB3.0 5Gpbs with only 2 differential pairs, like you'd have in a usb-c to usb-a cable, requires this. And you can't just connect them together like you'd do for USB2, the resulting stubs degrade the signal too much.