> It's a narrow connector and sideways force acts like a knife on the shell. blowing out the sides.

But the port is contained with any the body of the device and the cord is just dangling so wouldn't that kinda thing break the cord first?

I mean, everything breaks with enough use/bad luck/whatever, I've just never seen a usbc port break like that.

The other day I was using a magnetic usbc connector to a headphone and it broke by ripping the part of the connect that inserts into the port away from the body of the plug, but the port itself was fine.