I know USB-C is the future, but it's going to be a long, long, long time before all our devices are using it - particularly external displays. My current Macbook Pro has an HDMI port. I use it every day. I do not want to carry a converter dongle with me everywhere (I did that with my old Air that only had a DisplayPort). To echo other complaints: this is supposed to be a professional machine. I don't care about it be…
And the wild thing is, the ports introduced today aren't even USB-C; they're Thunderbolt 3 ports. Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C are not the same, right?
* TB3 is an alternate mode of USB, if you have TB3 you have USB[0]
* The reverse is not true, you can have non-TB3 USB-only ports
[0] well technically not necessarily, the USB-C and USB-3.1 standards are completely separated but that'd be really stupid