Lightning is worse to the point where it isn't even funny

  - 480Mb/s vs 120Gb/s data transfer
  - 9V? vs 48V
  - 2.4A? vs 5A
  - resulting in 18W vs 240W
  - proprietary vs open.

Youre calling the connector supporting 13.3x the power and 250x data transfer while being an open standard and almost the same size "worse".