The lightning connector was a rejected USB C candidate design. It was rejected by the USB consortium because of the anti consumer design flaw that it fails in the device instead of the cable.

Apple adopted it after the rejection knowing that it was rejected and why.

Broken lightning stalk: you have a bad cable and a good phone

Broken usb-c talk: you have a good cable and a bad phone.

Physically speaking: Lightning connector > USB-C connector. Fite me.