Downvoted because it's not even relevant. This new USB standard was not implemented to merge the use cases of existing standards as per the cartoon narrative. Its purpose is to add new functionality not available in any prior USB standard.
Downvoted because enough is enough! The "14 competing standards" comic was really funny the first few hundred times it was snarked into HN comments.
But this time it fits perfectly.
No, to fit perfectly, the type C plug would have been invented to cover the use cases of all of the the previous plugs.
That was not the motivation.
Downvoted because this has become an almost knee-jerk reaction against any attempt at consolidating or unifying multiple standards, which should be the goal.