I appreciate your cordial response, thank you!
Before I address the case debacle, check out the "ten-one side facing plug" it is a great alternative to Apple's awful duckhead, but do note, it does not fold, so it is a bit cumbersome to carry around in a sleeve for example..
Now I can't blame Apple here, we live in a free-market and they are a private entity providing products, services, and employment, which without them, would not exist. I am also a consumer which consented to spend more than $4000 on this fighter jet of a beast 38 core MacBook Pro with a jaw-dropping 96 gigs of unified RAM. I am okay with that, fine, I accept the fact that Apple knows people like me are going to buy that darn extension, even though it's added lunk to carry around in my backpack. Apple also openly admits to incorporating planned obsolescence in their products, but again, that is their prerogative, don't like it? Go open your own Apple or buy a computer somewhere else...
The difference here is that a loose screen on millions of laptops is absolutely not going to increase your revenue... At the end of the day, these crap chargers, constant port changes which necessitate dongles and adapters, planned obsolescence, etc. all drive revenue. Loose screens on the other hand, do not... And if the product has a fault which does not drive revenue, that is almost guaranteed because it was on accident or poor planning, aka a design fault...
Apple boxed these laptops in the same boxes from last year for petes sake... Why are they cutting corners and messing up so much, where did the care to attention and fine details go? Fe. how do you botch-up so bad as to leave the option to edit the touch-bar in the system settings, when the computer has no Touch Bar...? For crying out loud, imagine a student making such a silly mistake in an operating systems class or a software engineering class, the teacher is going to deduce points.... These devs and designers are the brightest of the bright, the sharpest tools in the shed, the cream of the crop, yet they can't make a sturdy screen and get the software right? Do me a favor and hold yourself to some type of standard, if you don't want to set the bar, so be it, but don't stoop down so low.
Regarding your assertions regarding cases, I totally agree cheap cases are loose junk which trap dirt and gunk that scratch your computer overtime. But I do not buy such cases, my 2015 MacBook Pro looks like the day I bought it, brand new, pristine, and it had a Thule cases on it for the past 8 years. A good case goes a long way.
Indeed I am inline with your opinion, however this is only an opinion, the fact is apple has MacBook cases they recommend on their website. If their computer is going to be incompatible with those cases because the screen falls down due to their weight, they should either not be recommending cases, or create computers which can be used with the cases they recommend.