Most of my photo buddies and I all have small docks for our MBPs. It obviates the needs you guys talk about. I use UHS-II SD cards so I want faster transfer speeds than the old USB connections anyway.
Yeah, now start whining about how you don't want to have a small dock to carry around in your bag and how you don't like external drives, etc.
Sorry if you think I’m whining. If I could do everything I need to with a small dock, I’d be happy as a clam.
To offload the Red cards, I need to go from eSATA to two thunderbolt or usb3 drives.
To tether the P65+ I need to go from FireWire to usbc.
To offload cards from the still cameras I need to go from usb3 to usbc, then out to a thunderbolt or usb3 drive..
To get out to my biggest agency client’s monitors, I need hdmi from a dongle that’s not Apple’s because Apple’s hdmi dongle isn’t compatible with their system, but Kensington’s is.
So your tidy little dock would work for some of what I need, but force all of it through one usbc port, so the transfer speeds would slow to a crawl.
And when I went into my local Apple store to research what I needed to connect to all my stuff before buying the MacBook (semi) Pro, the associate I talked to told me I should “just get rid of all that old stuff”.