More evidence that USB-C is an insanely overengineered spec. Cables should be dumb pipes, not devices with their own active circuitry. IMHO Ethernet, while not perfect, got this part right.

The only reason the signals don’t exactly match the one above is just the orientation of the cable.

This is one of the more perplexing design decisions. Was simply mirroring the contacts too simple for them? Did someone imagine a use-case where they wanted to detect the orientation of the cable? WTF.