I can't wait until it falsely identifies the dirt and I can't charge my phone any more.

Well, the USB port on my pixel is already useless for anything except charging. Somehow the data connection is broken.

I hope the update still lets me charge..

This new feature fills me with foreboding.

I really miss the days phones came with covers for the USB ports. They were annoying as hell due to my lack of finger nails, but damn the port stayed spotless. Every phone I've had lately the usb port gets so full of dust and crap chargers stopped working properly unless I fucked around and balanced it just perfectly.

You can buy female dust covers on Amazon. I haven't really had issues. My biggest complaint was how susceptible USB micro was to breaking, but no problems with USB Type-C phones.