Comment by MBCook

I wouldn’t blame USB-C for that, personally.

The Pencil situation is a disaster. There are at least 3 first party versions plus the 3rd party ones. And when version X + 1 comes out they don’t drop support for version X, they use it in a different product for some stupid reason. Probably because the tooling already exists.

So you can find entire matrices online attempting to explain which iPads support which pencils.

It’s horrible. The Lightning -> USB-C transition is probably one of least objectionable parts of pencil history.