That's another massive nuisance I've seen. Fortunately, I'm still pretty boomer in my tech stack so I haven't dealt with big differences in cables. I can see how it would be a problem if one had many devices and cables though. They should have implemented something into the spec for that. I saw that Microsoft is trying to force the issue by requiring PCs to have actually universal ports, but that doesn't help with cables.
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Which brings me to another maddening issue with some C ports being for this and that, with others being for this only. That's not entirely on the spec though since devices do different things with different constraints.
The concept of 'universal' is kind of a lie. Everything just ends up looking universally alike or forced into a role it really isn't good for.