'Cause I just sit down, plug any of my laptops (all of which have USB-C in, and everything just works. Windows, Linux, Macs (n.b.: this required a bit of a hack because they don't support MST, but it's not a huge deal)--sit down, go.
Vendor-locked lower-bandwidth docking ports are an antipattern.
My Lenovo TB3 dock has two DisplayPort outputs, two HDMI outputs, Gigabit, a 3.5mm jack, 5 USB3 ports, and a USB-C port. It can also daisy-chain Thunderbolt 3 to another high-bandwidth device; I haven't tried it with a PCIe dock or anything, but in that kind of extremity my X1 Extreme has a second TB3 port onboard anyway.
And USB-C PD can charge my X1 Extreme--not as fast as the dedicated 135W charger, but a less hungry laptop charges rapidly.
What more do you want? What are you missing?
Are you really using cds and floppies in the year of our lord 2020, or are you just strawmanning?
For especially valuable data you want to preserve for 100+ years, there are "archival quality" discs [0] [1].
That would be 170 CD’s - nearly 30 DVD’s - which will eventually suffer disc rot.
DVD/CD write speeds are very slow, comparatively speaking to even USB 2.0 transfer speeds - and increasing the speed, in my experience, makes exact copies of discs extremely error-prone.
Explain how this is efficient? Genuinely curious, with the price of solid state storage these days.
(I understand even solid state storage has a shelf life, but at least it also can’t be so easily harmed as a CD/DVD)
A microSD card can hold 500GB. DVDs (and even blu-rays) are far from "dense".
They also require an order of magnitude longer to write, lose their data to bit rot faster than SLC flash, and require devices with mechanical motors for both reading and writing.
I wouldn't call them convenient compared to flash memory, and I'm surprised anyone would.
Archival quality optical discs are marketed as having a 300+ year lifespan.
I've never viewed SD cards as something appropriate for long-term offline storage, is SLC flash exceptional in this regard?
I was comparing the convenience of optical to tape, which is bulky and annoying, and in my experience quite unreliable.
I'll admit it's not quite as satisfying to plug in the cable, but it's still very functional and stable.
The one I use at work delivers power, has five USB-A ports, four monitor ports (pretty sure it doesn't support using all four at the same time, haven't tried) a thunderbolt port, and a headphone jack.