Before: you were carrying a cable (type A - lightning)

GP: you have to carry a cable (type A - lightning) and a dongle (type A - type C) rage rage eleventyone

If you have a brain: you carry a cable (type C - lightning)

Instead of two things, you just need one. They're saying that instead of a USB-A-to-Lightning cable and a USB-A-to-USB-C adapter, you can just use the one cable.