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Unfortunately this has an even more serious problem:
How do you know which cable supports which modes of delivery?
Turns out you have a usb c cable that doesn’t actually support power delivery or anything
Now what do you do?
This is why many of the expensive Dock options from HP / Dell / Lenovo, etc come with a non-detachable USB-C cable. You can't have the "wrong" cable because the one you need isn't removable.
I really dislike that. But I understand the reaction to the failure of the usb org. Usb C cables must be labelled on the cable (repeating) with exactly what they support in standard terms.
Maybe another job for the EU.