@Kimberlee_Model Thanks for the feedback! My intention in posting the link to my Hubs review was not to convert people to USB-C PD hubs but to show that there are hubs that can solve the wired-ethernet problem in the short term between shipping the laptops and shipping of the Gig Ethernet expansion card. Y’all don’t need to rush out and buy one this week, unless @nrp says the gig ether expansion card won’t appear until December I too have USB-A in my shopping cart for mice & such like, and agree on the expansion card sizing, but that’s surely cast in stone, other than the fact that Nirav did mention the possibility of a community-built double-height card (with extra feet to raise the laptop).
It strikes me that the “community-built expansion card” is somewhat like open-source software. Many people have ideas on how to improve it, and (not singling you or anyone else out here) few have the technical skills to make those ideas happen, and fewer yet have the funding to hire those with the skills to make the good ideas happen I am sure there will be some, but I’m not sure how many will actually materialize. A lot, I hope, because I do believe that “choice is good.”