Charging ports should not be designed by phone companies? Are you calling Apple a phone company? Better get them kick off the USB board then…since Apple is a member.

Some connectors suck, others are good for their time…but all will eventually age out of viability. Both competition and cooperation enable advances like USB-C, but if government removes the choice, how likely is it that there will be any impetus to move towards a newer standard with higher throughput or power capacities? And will this create artificial limits on device capabilities in the future as they limit those capabilities due to the limits of USB-C?

I’ll certainly enjoy having fewer cables to carry at least in the short term.

Does the law require specifically USB C? If so, if that law had been made in the past requiring mini-USB, presumably no one would ever have designed an alternative for phones until the law allowed for an alternative.