It's not that I hate them so much as I just think that the sooner moar case mfgr's include them on new releases, as well as moar mobo mfgr's putting the headers on their boards, the quicker we can all (finally) do away with the now antiquated USC-A connectors...
When/if that day ever comes, we can have just have moar universal, easy to use connectors, regardless if it is on the front OR back or whatever we plan to connect to it..... Plus, as we all know, when production and supply of a device ramps up considerably to meet increased demand, the price of said devices usually goes down rather quickly...
That day can't come soon enough for me, as I already own 6 devices with type C connectors on them and refuse to buy any new ones that don't have it also.....
High speed cables are active, they're never going to be as cheap as a USB-A cable that is effectively just four conductors.
I also have several USB-C devices and a front-panel port would make no difference to me. For my phones it offers no advantage over A, for my NVMe enclosure the bridge chip is the limiting factor, for my laptop it needs to provide 65W (something a front panel and motherboard header cannot handle), for my headset it needs to come from my GPU not motherboard, and for my lights and power bank they don't need data, just 5V 2A.
Like you, I'm buying USB-C wherever possible with the goal to eliminate old standards and let me just use one set of cables for everything, but almost every single one of those cables is an A-to-C. It's what the USB-C device manufacturer provided in the box, and apart from my Pixel, I've nothing that came with a double-ended USB-C cable.
Perhaps TPU could review it without blocking off airflow with that HDD and flip the PSU to exhaust air from the case, like Linus did and retest:
There are ways to build this case sensibly. TPU's test is a standardized test, and even if it doesn't make sense it's the only way to have a valid comparison between cases.
Not including a fan really hurts Silverstone's prospects in "stock configuration" standardized test as it's definitely not a designed to be a passive case.
I'm conflicted as including a fan may be wasteful (and increase the cost needlessly) if someone decides to fit an AIO there instead of a case fan, but perhaps TPU should update case-testing methodology in future to add one (standardized) fan in instances where no fans are provided. Whilst it's fair to test a case "as sold", I don't think I've built a machine without filling out more of the fan bays in at least a decade.