I agree with that. I had a 2011 MacBook Pro that I recently upgraded (nearly 10 years of service!)
I finally upgraded this year and was disappointed that they did away with the MagSafe charger. Now that was a thing of beauty. When you wanted to charge your laptop, the connector magnetically connected and if you accidentally got snagged in the cord, it would easily come away without bringing the laptop crashing to the floor with it.
Now it is back to a standard connector. Why?
Steve Jobs would never have allowed that to happen.
I agree regarding the demise of the MagSafe connector for power. Obstensibly, the idea is that you can now charge your laptop on any port (a bit of convenience), but the MagSafe was a stroke of genius that hasn’t been duplicated. I can’t count the number of times the magnetic connection saved my MBP... and contrary to the issues others had with the cords fraying... I never had one completely fail. I did have one have the outer sheath crack on my old white Macbook adapter - fixed with heat shrink.
My new MBP (I’ve had it less than 2 months) works well enough - but the jury is still out with 4 USB-C connectors and a headphone jack .... no SD slot, no other forms of connection... I have to have a dongle to connect just about anything...