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Remember when the EU had to pass laws to prevent everyone from making their own bloody chargers with proprietary plugs for mobile phones, because _no one needs their own custom charger_? Yeah, that.

It doesn't matter how cheap their charger is, no one should need to even buy one. RasPi botched their USB-C implementation, and the solution to that is not "buy yet another charger", it should be "we're fixing the design immediately, and it's going to cost us a fair bit but you can send your board back to get it replaced"

That's actually a good point I didn't consider.

But some folk already have decent pd-usb3 chargers that damn well ought to work.

Mine, that can charge my gpd pocket can barely power my pi4.

I still see the yellow lightening bolt which indicates a "poor" power supply - which is just plain lying.

It's not only that there shouldn't be a need for their charger if you already have one, but if you integrate the Pi into something custom you'll possibly want custom power delivery as well, and then it's a PSU redesign when you find out.