That’s my whole point; No, more ports isn’t more better. If you don’t need them they’re just more cost, more holes where water/debris can get into the machine, and more wrong holes to plug the charger into. If you do need them, then buy a machine that has them - there are plenty.

If youre in an office you can be expected to use a dock

Almost every laptop does have a dedicated HDMI port

Show me one architect that is actually dragging along two external 4k displays with their laptop.

If you are a professional with specific needs buy a specific laptop. Frankly there are more than enough laptops that have more ports if that’s what you need. Except even in your example you don’t even need more ports because you can just use the second USB4 port.

Most devices only have 40gbps USB4. Which is still enough for almost all sane use cases. Frankly, if you need multiple 4K monitors get a desktop.

That’s the most straw in a straw man I’ve seen in the whole thread.

Most new laptops have USB-C, A, and SD/micro SD, and HDMI. That’s 95% of all uses.

If you really need more then you just bought the wrong laptop. Get a Thinkpad or framework 16. If you need to interface with old hardware, get a contemporary machine.

I suppose they don’t use their superlatives quite that inflationarily.