All the USB family have both male and female aspects in both the connectors and ports though which is just asking for things to get broken as the male parts get smaller.
Apple doesn’t own the rights to either male or reversible connectors, so it was seemingly just a design decision to make something flimsy, which only looks robust when you look at it next to micro USB… Even a trrs like connector with 5 pins rather than 4 would’ve been better than what they came up with for durability at least, although shielding would have to be better on insertion/removal
All the USB family have both male and female aspects in both the connectors and ports though which is just asking for things to get broken as the male parts get smaller.
Apple doesn’t own the rights to either male or reversible connectors, so it was seemingly just a design decision to make something flimsy, which only looks robust when you look at it next to micro USB… Even a trrs like connector with 5 pins rather than 4 would’ve been better than what they came up with for durability at least, although shielding would have to be better on insertion/removal