Seriously look at my list of things I have. I suspect my phones and hopefully the spare batteries I buy in the coming years will be USB C. However, my bike gear and other hobby equipment won't any time soon. Even my laptop and tablets are going to be years before I update them to one that supports USB C.
So again, outside of laptops, the world had standardized on a connector. That my laptop was different is as relevant to me as knowing that my drier isn't USB C any time soon. That I'm now going to have to deal with a ridiculously slow transition from the de facto standard everyone else was following to USB C is just obnoxious.
Edge case? Probably, but only because most people don't consciously factor this into their purchase decisions. It's clear that USB-C is the way forward for phones, and once that happens on the low-mid market segment, everything else will follow.
This isn't an insult. Just pointing out that most of the electronics world had standardised. To pretend otherwise is just odd.