Who says anything about “significant”?

“Hey man, can you pick up some Gatorade when you’re a the store?”

“Sure, which one?”

“Blue”

Is not exactly an unreasonable conversation to have.

You connect power there.

This device literally does exactly this, coming from a USB C connector.

Let’s not pretend they’re not doing that as well.

There’s already docking stations for laptops that use two USB C connectors for exactly this reason.