People get insane around Nintendo and Apple, they are convinced that they just have to be evil in every possible way. I have my suspicions that these same people aren’t even using their products.
(Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t criticize them, just stay with facts and treat everyone the same.)
I thought it was a standard (well that’s a joke in itself) USB-C so you could in theory just connect it directly to a monitor. But I never dug into it. The dock has a fan after all and I rather avoid finding out if a third party dock has an issue or not. But I want a second dock and $119 over here is pretty steep.