I don't think you understand the problem. Unlike a USB-A power supply, a USB-C power supply cannot just assume by default that the device you plugged into it is not another power supply. That would risk causing a short and potentially starting things on fire.

I suppose that instead of a $0.01 resistor to request power they could have mandated some kind of (probably more expensive) circuit breaker that detects the short and shuts things off before it causes a fire, but I suspect then instead of broken devices having missing resistors you'd get ones with missing circuit breakers...

It pretty hard (maybe impossible) to design a spec that still works when manufacturers randomly omit critical components for no reason.