Not taking exception to any of your points - honestly, I think that while this new USB world is confusing, it is much better than it was in the day of the barrel plugs, especially not that everything is becoming USB-C. Just taking exception to this one point:

> The port is either marked (everything but MacBooks) or doesn't matter (MacBooks, pretty sweet).

Except that even when there shouldn't be a right choice, there still is:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309802-charging-a-macb...