The cynic in me sometimes enjoys the irony of watching USB become the fragmented ecosystem of loosely (or not) compatible interconnects that it was designed to replace.
(ok, it's not quite /that/ bad, but you get the sentiment)
(ok, it's not quite /that/ bad, but you get the sentiment)
The only thing it improved over was the hellscape if charging ports.
Maybe make their physical shapes different enough so that you can't connect things which fail catastrophically together?
But if you wan these top Mbps or W, or want 60 Hz 4k video, you may find out that not everything works with everything else, and proper cables play a crucial role, while being visually not distinctive at all.