I think there is a bias now due to the higher usage with USB-C vs old USB. It used to be you'd either connect something to USB temporarily, like a flash card then back into your pocket after the file transfer, or permanently, like a USB mouse in the back of your desktop you never unplug again.
Now that the port is becoming a charging port, it's used a lot more than data-only USB, and in ways that torque the port worse. You plug your usb phone into a usb brick and it largely isn't going anywhere, but on a laptop, you are plugging and unplugging the device all the time. You might be leaning at angles with it on your lap and adding pressure on the port (something I inadvertently notice myself doing once a week). On top of that, the go bad part, the flimsy inner pin, is on the computer side rather than the cheap cable side. After a year of use, my usb-c port went from snick snick to wobbly, both on my macbook and my nintendo switch.
In contrast, I've never had this happen with lightning port on my iPhone despite all the abuse and lint I give it, because the design is inverted with the flimsy pin on the cable being inserted into a simple slot in the phone. The old macbook magsafe plug was just a magnet holding contacts firm against each other, not even inserted into anything, so if it got torqued or abused it would just pop off and there would be no harm to the computer or the plug really, and you spent no force or effort jamming it into the computer since the magnet did the alignment work and made the connection for you (Typically, I would just grab my magsafe cable a foot up from the end and loosely slap it against the port basically and it would seat itself).
With the shortcomings of the design of USB-C, in comparison to the older standards, you put on a lot more wear and tear on the port.
> In contrast, I've never had this happen with lightning port on my iPhone despite all the abuse and lint I give it, because the design is inverted with the flimsy pin on the cable being inserted into a simple slot in the phone
One point in favor of USB-C when it comes to wear is that the moving parts (springy tongues for metal contact and clips to hold the plug in place) are on the cable, whereas on Lightning they are in the plug. So in regular use with Lightning you are wearing out the port, whereas with USB-C you are wearing out the cable.
Anecdotally, I've worn out the Lightning port on my Apple smart charging case, but I don't have any USB-C phone to compare to (I have USB-C on my laptop but the use case is too different to draw any conclusions)
Also anecdotally, it seems due to required tolerances, it's much more difficult for third parties to manufacture lightning cables - if you buy cheap lightning cables on Amazon, they tend to have poor fit and get loose quickly. Whereas I've never had that problem with the cheap USB-C cables that get packed in with aliexpress junk.
Now that the port is becoming a charging port, it's used a lot more than data-only USB, and in ways that torque the port worse. You plug your usb phone into a usb brick and it largely isn't going anywhere, but on a laptop, you are plugging and unplugging the device all the time. You might be leaning at angles with it on your lap and adding pressure on the port (something I inadvertently notice myself doing once a week). On top of that, the go bad part, the flimsy inner pin, is on the computer side rather than the cheap cable side. After a year of use, my usb-c port went from snick snick to wobbly, both on my macbook and my nintendo switch.
In contrast, I've never had this happen with lightning port on my iPhone despite all the abuse and lint I give it, because the design is inverted with the flimsy pin on the cable being inserted into a simple slot in the phone. The old macbook magsafe plug was just a magnet holding contacts firm against each other, not even inserted into anything, so if it got torqued or abused it would just pop off and there would be no harm to the computer or the plug really, and you spent no force or effort jamming it into the computer since the magnet did the alignment work and made the connection for you (Typically, I would just grab my magsafe cable a foot up from the end and loosely slap it against the port basically and it would seat itself).
With the shortcomings of the design of USB-C, in comparison to the older standards, you put on a lot more wear and tear on the port.