I broke my phone with pocket lint, leaving me with (expensive) pocket junk

I have a love-hate relationship with USB Type-C. On the one hand, I enjoy its ubiquity in the consumer charging space, its reversible connector design, and its immense power delivery and data bandwidth potential. On the other hand, I find its physical design to ‘snap’ into place less satisfyingly than Apple’s older Lightning standard, and I’ve run into issues with loose cables and with an accumulation of debris within the female end of the reciprocal.