> There actually do exist 8-pin guys like this https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C47326494.html
I was glad to see this at first (because I did page through Mouser and LCSC a bit before I came back here to continue my bitching and found nothing). Then I actually looked at the drawing, and— Excuse me, is that really a USB-C socket that only works in one orientation?.. The drawing shows that the socket has both CC1 (A5) and CC2 (B5) but only one of the two copies of D+ (A6 but not B6) and D- (A7 but not B7). Seriously? Even I don’t hate my users that much.
Yep. I couldn't believe it existed either. I was even curious enough to ask an LLM about it and got the same response: it doesn't know of a use beyond creating frustration.
I guess past-me was smart when drawing USB-C connector symbols in my library and this one doesn't exist there for a reason!