I don't get your point here. None of the things you mentioned prevent standardisation, or stop it from being a good thing.I mean, even if every manufacturer agreed to go USB C on everything, Android, Apple, high end, flip phones, whatever... it's not like everyone's going to throw their existing phones in the trash because now there's a "standard" for cables. Those phones are going to be around for a while, also in the used/refurb market. And how many years until USB C gets replaced with something newer. No standard lasts forever.
It was pretty good when those same politicians got companies to stop making their idiotic panoply of cables that were functionally identical but physically and electronically totally incompatible purely for the sake of raking on money.
So yeah, seems like a solid plan to me, especially since the industry is pretty close to standardising on USB C anyway.