It's bleak either way. If we don't regulate enough, companies will eat us alive, and if we overregulate, then the government will do the same. We're better off with some kind of balance between these two, and mandating the charging port like this worked out well so far in my opinion, and so, I welcome the upgrade too.

Are standardised wall sockets planned economy? Charging ports for cars? This has been a push for more than a decade now and the reason everyone aside from apple converges because of the brussels effect. From my perspective it has been great.

The alternative isn't just plain competitive designs. It's also anticompetitive practices.