The vast majority of users rarely if ever plug in peripherals that can't have an adaptor permanently attached. Why pay size, weight, complexity, fragility for sometht users don't need?
E.g. I have a Razer laptop which has all the build quality and properties of a MacBook... except that they somehow managed to do the impossible: install 2x USB-C and 2x USB-A. How would have thought something like that is possible?!
She used to have a thicker HP with all the ports, but this one was still plugged into a dock at work, as that was simply the easiest thing to do.
For her, her daily life has not changed at all going from all the ports to two USB-C.
Just an anecdote.