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I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that you can have this variety of cable types on a standard
Now I'm not just thinking about the port, but also the usually very opaque cable.
It is a bad thing.
Cables should definitely just be "wire from pin X1 to pin X2" otherwise you get weird latent failures and manufacturers doing what you see in that picture.
Now the only "correct" cable is the $129 Apple cable because it implements the whole spec instead of just the pinouts.
I get no joy from saying this but the $5 gas station lightning cable universe would have been a better future for us because lightning was designed to break at the cable in case of stress and required fusible links in the cable ends to prevent fires.
If a cable manufacturer cheaped out and decided not to provide a 0ohm resistor then the little ic at the end of the cable (required, nothing works without it) functions as a fuse in a pinch.
Usbc is a great example of doing it wrong because the people who do it right asked to be paid too much and also now own the rights to the concept of doing it right.