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I'd be willing to bet the next version is USB4 2.0.

If they stick with the current system, next will be USB4.1 Gen 2, while USB4 gets retroactively renamed to USB4.1 Gen 1.

But that's assuming they don't find a creative new way to name USB4 versions poorly.

How come USB4 is one word, when USB 2.0, USB 3.0, and so on are 2? Is there an actual answer at all?

Arbitrary and capricious marketing.

It's kinda like the Pentium4, where Intel switched from Roman numbers ("Pentium II", "Pentium III") to an Arabic numberal with no space.

Hopefully USB4 won't be the energy-guzzling disaster that Pentium4 was.

Latest version name is USB 3.2 Gen 2×2

You see, lines up perfectly

"4" means bad luck in some countries, so maybe they should name it "USB5" from "3 + 2"

Naming is not (that) hard. What's usually hard is ignoring the ego that tells us to leave a mark or that we know better than others; i.e. putting your self before the whole.

when can we start calling it the C4 port?