They are not remotely similar. The old micro usb policy could be complied with by shipping a little adapter with your product. This one cannot be.
And thank goodness for that. Nobody wants to deal with dongles everywhere
Okay but that doesn’t address my point or defend yours.
Mostly because I can’t tell what you’re trying to say
My whole point is that this requirement could suffocate innovation on ports by turning it into a mother-may-I regime in perpetuity. You said, but we had the regime before with micro usb yet still innovated to usb-c. My response was that the old requirement didn’t stifle innovation since it was satisfied by an adapter [requiring a minor logical step by the reader:] because you could still invent new ports as long as you bundled a micro USB adapter. Your response was, adapters bad. Do you see how that doesn’t address the argument at all?