Exactly. but bandwidth is not an issue if you plug in a keyboard, mouse, writing pad, the thumb drive from your colleague, and maybe a USB development board. And maybe a USB oscilloscope.
I might get myself a cheap USB hub.
Exactly. And this is why they are “pro” because you have to buy expensive dongles to connect stuff.
Fundamentally, Framework is also a 4 Thunderbolt laptop. The twist is that they have four modules (a.k.a. built-in-dongles) so you can have whatever port you want.
So, for someone that does not care about aesthetics (and in fact the USB-C “adapter” card does not do thunderbolt very well?) , they might order a machine with no expansion cards and just plug their Thunderbolt dongles in.