Comment by teamonkey
16 hours ago
The good reason is that there are plenty of third party boards that already offer what you want. There’s very little to be gained by an ‘official’ one. The next one probably should have C, if just because it is the Euro standard, but no urgent need to backport.
The point is just blowing past you, friend.
I don't need a Pico or any other 3rd party board. I drop SC-1511/12s packages on my PCBs as needed.
What I am saying is that the reference board for an RP2350 should have a USB-C port in 2026. It's not aesthetics or even convenience (and it's definitely not price) so much as establishing best practices for how a part should be used.
A big part of that is to acknowledge the context in which a part exists, and in this case, it's both a fact and a very good thing that the world has embraced USB-C. It's even being regulated in many cases.
I'm not saying that you can't smoke, just that maybe you shouldn't do it when you're volunteering as a Big Brother.