After USB-C I can even charge my MacBook with my Nintendo Switch charger, and I can always find someone that’s got one spare in the office. I’m so done with those incompatible circle-pin chargers!
This story is about wildly out of spec junk hardware.
OP should be fine plugging in their Switch via spec-compliant cables.
I could hook a lightning cable up to a car battery, and you'd blame the connector.
The switch console, however, has a non-compliant USB port, which can be damaged when hooked up to a standard USB-PD charger; the pins can get mechanically shorted. Blame Nintendo for that one.
I’ve charged my MacBook with all sorts of USB-C chargers with no issues, including from USB power banks (I was never able to charge my laptop from a standard portable external battery before usb-c!).