"Universality" that involves many people finding that cables that look identical don't actually work the same way.
Interesting definition there.
Universality of physical plug, I guess?
Interesting definition there.
Universality of physical plug, I guess?
In theory yes. In practice most of the cables are good enough for most users - e.g. in a home LAN cables are probably 10m at most, so even a cat5 cable can probably give people a connection that's as fast as their internet uplink. If the problems with USB-C are common enough to impact normal users (and I think lack of thunderbolt falls into that category) then that's a major difference in practice.