Personally all lightning cables I've seen have been damaged in some way. Those weren't my cables tho. And regarding USB c haven't had a failure either.
If it's gonna be the windows key being replaced... Why not just use that (just wild assumptions based on the mock up).
Tho they can't stop me from sending that key back to it's original purpose with via.
Yeah that's when they cheap out on a resistor to make it USB/USB-C compliant (since without that they simply don't request any power. There isn't any power provided if nothing is requested).
You can quite easily set grub to remember the last picked option