Why is this even an argument? Lightning is not something obscure. You can go on Amazon now and find hundreds of cables that are not “MFI certified”. You can’t believe all of these Chinese cables are bothering with certification.

I have a few of these:

https://a.co/d/4tSBBdi

And these

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092ZT8CJ9?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_shar...

Not a certification anywhere.

I’ve replaced all of my regular Lightning cables with these