If the standard isn't sufficient, you work to improve the standard. The standard was micro USB under the common external power supply legislation with compliance being voluntary. When usb-c gained popularity the legislation was started to change it about 4-5 years ago.

What Apple went and did was go and create a proprietary connector and refuse to change to the (new) de facto standard until forced long after the time at which it would have been reasonable to change. This is why a mandatory standard was required, one that they also obstructed the for as long as possible.

If Apple had played cooperatively, the dust would have settled on this getting close to a decade ago, and would probably still be voluntary compliance