So essentially this is just manufactures trying to avoid royalty fees, with a substandard solution. That's infuriating for end users and I actively would not purchase a product sporting a DP.

The first thing anyone does with DP is convert it to something useful with an asinine adapter.

I find that lock idiotic. That's my biggest gripe besides it existing. I'd rather have whatever device it's hooked up to get disconnected when in idiot trips over the cord than having it rip the Mobo/PC attached to it across the room.

We are not going to the moon, it's a video cable hooked up to a monitor/projector - usually in an office environment. No need for a lock.

Or If you work in IT some idiot tries to cram an HDMI cord into a DP because regular people are like "WTF is a displayport? everything is HDMI now, its 2017.", or better yet they try and disconnect a DP cable not realizing a lock is on (because nothing else modern does) it and pull so hard it breaks.

I have had all of these things happen to my equipment.