That is a legend born at the time USB-mini-B was replaced with USB-micro-B. For what it's worth, typical USB-mini-B has a particularly bad spring design. "Spring" is just a protrusion stamped out from a thin flat sheet of regular mild steel. Same sheet that is making bulk of the receptacle.

One does not necessarily have to make springs that are quite as epicly bad, and indeed both typical USB-C connector, and lightning receptacle, avoid that pitfall.