I guess I was warmer on the "ports" when I thought it was some proprietary or straight up PCI-E connector. Instead of just a USB-C port.
Which I guess gets down to how solid those "rails" are for the 20 dollar dongles. Because if you break the inner C port, you are in the exact same mess.
Which... gets back to it being hard to really figure out how much of this is "teething issues" versus "this is secretly kind of shitty?". Because replaceable ports is GOOD. I would even be cool with the underlying USB-C as the interface port. But "I need to have an hdmi port on my laptop and will spend 20 dollars on a proprietary dongle" is stupid. As opposed to "I need to have an hdmi port on my latpop. This also works on my tablet and my steam deck and any other laptop because it is a 20 dollar dongle that has an HDMI port, 2 USB A ports, and does power pass through. Which, again, feels like Apple shittiness while also increasing e-waste.
Which I think gets to where I am on a lot of the framework stuff. It sounds awesome but the implementation is REALLY straddling that line of "is this a teething issue or is this actually worse than what we currently have?"