After visiting the apple store, I am confident the lightning connector as a dock will be fine.
Walk into the apple store and first, you will see hundreds of iPhone 5s being docked with nothing but the lightning connector and acrylic. No support plate, no back plate, nothing but connector and phone. (Correction there is a tiny acrylic guide plate to help customers align)
Second you will see tons of kids and the like playing and docking them. I think we should give apple more credit.
Braeburn, made2dock, lenntek, and others should be fine. Post those pics once you get them. Mine should be here this weekend. From what I read they are here in SoCal so I have my fingers crossed. I have been looking for a dock once I heard about the i5 release rumors. Once I saw the new connection, I knew there would be a lot of new products out there.