I'm the same way in that I just have a collection of quality cables that do pretty much everything one could reasonably ask (i.e. excluding obviously special things like "I needed an optical thunderbolt cable to deliver 40 Gbps 20 meters why isn't it delivering 90 watt PD as well!") however I can see for those that don't want to spend a lot of money (keep in mind "a lot" is extremely relative) on a bunch of cables and just want to use the cheap cables they accumulate the lack of being able to easily look at such cables and see what they are capable of without a secret decoder ring as a frustrating thing type c brought. At least with the older ones either looked like it would fit or it wouldn't or the color of the ends matched.