As a non-apple person I still think that the lightning connector is far superior to Micro-USB. And I would have been vehemently against a legally mandated Micro-USB port.

USB-C is quite a good standard, but it also incorporated some of the features of lightning, e.g. rotational symmetry, a significant usability enhancement.

The question is: could e.g. apple create a port which is significantly superior to USB-C, the way lightning was superior to Micro-USB?