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That's not the point. USB 3 is 15 years old and has been widely available for 13 years. Most would expect a new $800 flagship phone to have modern standards.
That’s not their flagship phone. The Pro is. And the pro supports usb3. For the vast majority of users that don’t give a shit about data transfer speed via a cable, this just doesn’t matter at all.
The base iPhone 15 is still a "premium" phone, it costs 2x as much as Google's A series phones, and google never had a problem putting USB 3 on those. Maybe most people won't do this, but it's obviously important enough that they didn't do the same on the pro version. It's so weird to see people defending a company purposely gimping their phones just to give them upsells.
The pro has a new processor that they’ve added usb3 to. The base uses the last generation processor which did not have that.
You’re making a lot of assumptions about their intentions and claiming that people are defending bad behavior, but it really just looks like you don’t know what you’re talking about.