You seem to be shoehorned into believing that everything is just a technical problem and needs to be solved with a technical solution. You also seem to forget that so many of those USB-C implementations are so bad a lot of phones were better off on micro-B. It has also been reported on extensively, especially by your example of "other manufacturers".

  - https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/
  - https://www.pcworld.com/article/424287/beware-bad-usb-c-cables-google-engineer-warnswhile-naming-names.html
  - https://pocketnow.com/usb-c-compatibility-problems/
  - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-usb-c-problems-in-windows-f4e0e529-74f5-cdae-3194-43743f30eed2
  - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/22/cursed-usb-c-when-plug-orientation-matters/ (this one is for the USB2 compatibility pins which are orientation-specific)

Discussed here on HN:

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911598
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29445458
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435805
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533862
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473777
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24650718
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12824366
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021665

So far, companies like HP, Dell, Microsoft, Xiaomi, Motorola, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Nintendo etc. have all made products with really bad implementations in cables, chargers, and devices like handhelds (gaming, phones etc.) and larger (laptops, TVs).

Also, suggesting someone was blindsided is just a dumb flame bait and you know it. If you can't properly discuss this, why are you even here?