That is a really, really obvious problem, so why do you think you are the first person on the planet who ever thought of it? And that nobody addressed it?

> But forcing everyone to use it until the end of time is ridiculous.

Correct, it is ridiculous you think anyone did that.

> Imagine if they had done this a few years ago, and the micro-B connector was mandated. We would never have gotten usb-C.

They did. We do have usb-c.