Comment by CobrastanJorji

Reading through this, I'm left unable to see the underlying forces. None of the people working on this spec are idiots, so how did they arrive here? What are the forces and unstated requirements behind the scenes that I don't understand that have led to a USB4 spec with this many potential flavors and absurd naming conventions to express them? Is it something about cost? Or patents? Or some random company who won't budge on something but needs to be included?