Lightning's potentially not fully dead yet — they made no mention of removing Lightning from peripherals (keyboards/mice/touchpads).
Thankfully those are all things you leave on your desk. I have a lightning cable always plugged into my MacBook Pro for charging my keyboard and mouse, but I don't even bother with it for my phone since it's pretty slow charging from a Mac's port compared to the 67W charger that came with the laptop.
Lesson in how to take an L and move on
Who?
Many languages refer to items as gendered, so instead of "it" it would be "him" or "her". This is a pretty common thing to hear in English when in those regions. The post is likely referring to the lightning port (from the post title).