I guess hardware vendors are allowed to make USBC devices that goes outside the USBC specs? Although this seems to be within the USBC spec?

Would be interesting if future hardware standards would not allow to be licensed as "within standard" if they break a few rules.

I could see some hardware vendors using their own implementation of a standard just to fool customers into believing it supports a standard while there are exceptions.

Isn't that what happened to bluetooth?

I am not an apple user, but isn't apple also abusing hardware standards to encourage clients to buy its products?