I may be older than many other posters here but I remember all the bemoaning and criticism that was wide-spread when computers began eliminating 5 1/4” floppy disc slots from computers. Later the same whining occurred when 3 1/2” slots were eliminated.
Some folks just don’t understand progress and continuous improvements and have limited ability to adjust to tech progress.
Well, it’s one thing to change the iOS devices from 30-pin to Lightning, as it has only been one change since the original 2001 iPod.
USB-C will be the third notebook power supply used for MacBook in the last three years. I can see that as annoying for stability.
On the other, other hand, fewer people really expect cross-device compatibility for a full-fledged computer vs. a music player, phone or tablet, where the user typically has a lot more invested in accessories. (Peripherals, on the other, other, other hand...)
You’re probably another one who remembers:
> Punch cards, keypunch machines, punch card readers and the absolute joy when some poor soul saw his stack of those two-foot-long boxes of cards containing two weeks’ worth of punching, sorting and verifying get dumped down a flight of stairs.
> The days when you were only a Big League Computer Organization if your computer was the size of a Buick station wagon, had approximately 400 teeny weeny flashing lights and was made by (a pause for a drum roll....)IBM, your data storage (nowadays I think the name is RAM) was on a herd of refrigerator-sized magnetic tape drives which resided in a 2500 square foot climate controlled tabernacle next door and the printouts all were produced by similarly outsized (and dead noisy) track drive printers. (Most wonderful thing about those days was that you could generate the most appalling gibberish imaginable, but so long as it was presented on that funky paper-with-the-holes, it was treated like holy writ.)
Damn.
Outside of the sheer size of the stuff, thing’s haven’t changed a bit, have they?