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It's not the standard that's bad, it's the actual wiring of it.

That's akin to saying:

The US power grid is a bad standard because I wired up my house wrong and it burned down.

It seems more like saying:

The US power grid is a bad standard because I wired up my house wrong and it burned the power station down.

How so? The charger was fine (I presume, it's not mentioned either way), the charged device got fried.