Fair enough, I understand your view. For my use case I will vote with my dollar for 3.5mm and MicroSD.
Data recovery pulling a MicroSD from a phone is much easier than trying to desolder a memory chip with a hotair gun and figure out how to download it.
Also I am not cool with Google and Microsoft and Apple stacking the deck to send all the data to their headquarters, but that’s just me.
YMMV. Choice is good. And yes I got what you meant about people. USB-C is engineered better than predecessor ports still without a proper stand or attentive care I can’t see average user wear and tear not breaking some ports assuming they knew how to do it to begin with.
Maybe you could argue that a external NVME would be less hazardous but a stiff Flash is going to be harder to make a case for. I’ve seen people have more problems with USBC than USBA despite its improvements.
But that’s just my view and if you have your own and we disagree I understand and that’s okay.