Wasting your breath man. If Apple wants to make something that directly kills people (not saying this is that thing), there will be 10 guys to aggressively argue the merits of reducing global population. The key idea around here is "whatever Apple wants to do is the one and only right way for things to go." So if the (always) defenders get a whiff of something they believe Apple wants to do, they'll advocate it sight unseen, no questions asked. If later, Apple comes out against the very same thing (that the earlier rumor was not true and Apple doesn't believe in whatever was rumored (or doesn't have a way- or the desire- to implement it YET), these same people will then turn on the concept and tear into it with fervor.
Look to the past. Apple used to claim a 3.5" and 4" screen phone were each the "perfect" size and ridicule larger-screen phones. Go back and read threads at the time. This crowd ripped bigger screen phones in every way Apple did and then some: (developer) fragmentation (regarding coding for different screen resolutions), "one handed use", pants with bigger pockets, and on and on. And then Apple rolls out larger-screen phones and all that years-long accumulated sentiment seemed to evaporate.
This crowd would relentlessly bash NFC while paying with your phone was only available on competitor phones. And then Apple rolls out Apple pay and this crowd wanted to boycott stores that wouldn't allow them to pay that way.
When there were strong rumors and even tangible evidence that Apple was going to roll out a phone with a sapphire screen, this crowd was both advocating it and even proclaiming that they would not buy an iPhone without a sapphire screen (if only the better iPhone had one). And then that whole thing fell apart and apparently all those very, VERY passionate "sapphire screen or bust" people decided that they were not so committed to only buying iPhone if it had a sapphire screen: "Shut up and take my money!"
We will even talk out of both sides of our mouths (if Apple does). There was a year when Apple rolled out an iPad with retina screen at the same time they rolled out an iPad mini without retina. And this crowd passionately argued that a retina screen was THE reason to upgrade to that iPad AND that the (modestly) smaller-screen iPad mini didn't need retina, yet it was a must-upgrade too... until the next year when Apple rolled out the (same-sized screen) iPad mini WITH retina and then retina was THE main reason to upgrade to that one.
The defenders passionately defended the headphone jack decision... but you won't see any of them bashing Apple for keeping that very same jack in every other product. In other words, much like the iPad release with and without retina, Apple is perfectly right to jettison it where it is jettisoned but also perfectly right for keeping it where it is kept. Of paramount importance: Apple cannot be wrong.
Same with USB3C. Apple is right to adopt USB3C as the "one jack to rule them all" for new laptops but also right for NOT adopting it in new iPhones. Adapters & dongle requirements all make perfect sense for the probably many years until the things to which we need to connect our laptops eventually add USB3C too. Don't you dare complain about dongles & adapters, just spend the money and buy them... oh and pay more for laptops without current standard ports too- the Apple has spoken and they are always right.
More recently, even a few weeks before Apple rolled out a 4K
TV, this crowd was very aggressive at ridiculing all things 4K (except of course everything else Apple had rolled out already embracing 4K): "gimmick", "stupid", "I can't see any difference (so you can't either)", "the chart", "until everything in the iTunes store is available in 4K...", "national bandwidth must be upgraded everywhere", "storage", etc. Then, Apple rolls out a 4K
TV and that whole crowd seemed to have just evaporated.
It was pretty much a repeat of the anti-1080p sentiment when Apple was still clinging to 720p before they rolled out the
TV3- right down to
the very same excuses. Then Apple rolled out the "3" and crickets at that time too. I fully expect the very same sentiment to be recycled yet again when the world starts shifting to 8K in a few years... passionately persisting in every thread until Apple rolls out an 8K
TV at which time, 8K will suddenly make perfect sense to all.
The underlying rule here is whatever Apple has for sale now is the one and only right thing for all consumers. Second to that, rumors that imply where Apple is going to go- like this one- gets a fair amount of the same passionate support. As an
individual consumer, don't you dare "think different" unless those differences align with what Apple has for sale now or appears to be going toward very soon. Anything outside those boundaries will be met with quick counterpoint attempting to undermine
your own opinion as effectively as possible- using logic or illogic, truth or spin, etc... whatever it takes. I've been here long enough to see this over and over and over again. It is remarkably consistent.