Comment by cesarb

> USB-C center tongue female design means that the port will break before the cable. With lightning, the cable plug takes all the stress.

Are you sure it's the center tongue which takes all the stress, and not the round shell?

AFAIK, USB-C is designed so that the cable breaks before the port, because the parts which wear the most with use (the contact and retention springs) are in the cable, not on the device.