No, I’m not. That and many other stresses easily break them. Have it plugged in to charge while driving, get in an accident, phone flies from where it was, connector damaged.
Put it in your pocket with a portable power pack to charge it, move the wrong direction, stress on the connector breaks it.
It is not at all uncommon to break a USB C connector, quite the contrary it is one of the number one causes of phone damage after a cracked screen.
It seems as though you are having trouble following the conversation. I said nothing about which has a higher insertion cycle lifespan. However, you completely misunderstand what that spec means. It is a guideline for a minimum endurance in the design, which does not mean that any particular product meets that, nor does it mean that USB A won’t withstand not just as many, but more insertion cycles.
“Modern device like a flashlight”? You do realize that flashlights have been around for 100 years? Do you realize that there’s nothing outdated about USB A, that millions of people have devices with USB A? Do you realize that most of the USB power banks on the market, including the new ones coming out daily, use USB A? Do you have any idea that most of the things you’re writing are completely backwards?
So essentially this is to address what I’ve been writing, that it has an inherent weakness. Above you wrote “join the USB IF” but apparently they are conceding what I stated and you argued against. You have managed to prove yourself wrong.
It’s not even that I consider USB A to be the ultimate connector form factor. Not at all. It just beats USB B and C hands down, which is why it is used on things like USB power banks, hubs, motherboard ports, etc. Essentially it is used far more when there is no space constrain and my argument is that there isn’t that much space being saved, particularly on something larger and thicker like a flashlight.
Besides, the fact of the matter is, there are far more flashlights with mUSB than USB C, so I have no idea where you’re getting the idea that you can just insist that you’re only going to buy them with USB C. If you mean in some glorious future you will, at some point USB C will be “outdated” too.
It is pretty silly to make a weak USB port on something like a flashlight, especially (considering the intent of this website, budget lights) lower cost offerings which aren’t necessarily built to the same standards as more expensive lights. If you sincerely believe some generic light with the tiniest USB C PCB they can shoehorn into the available space is going to be durable, then you’re in for a surprise.