Unaesthetic color mismatch once again from Apple, does anyone know if its for a specific reason or an oversight?

So I’ve had an iPhone and MacBook Pro for about a year now.

Someone stole my MacBook charging brick.

Anyways I bought a replacement third party brick on amazon. Anyways, I noticed that quite frequently I’ll plug it in, the MacBook will recognize it, but it won’t charge. I will have to unplug and replug it in a few times and eventually it will charge.

I figured that it was the cable that came with it so i bought an official apple cable. Nope, same issue.

I tried plugging one of my old android USB c phones into the brick to see if it actually is the brick being trash. Nope charges my old android phone fine.

I wondered if this was an apple thing so I did an experiment with my iPhone:

• If I plug a non MFI cable into an official brick, it works.

• If I plug a non Apple MFI cable into an unofficial brick sometimes it doesn’t.

• if I plug an official apple cable into an unofficial brick it usually works.

• If I plug a non MFI cable into a non official brick it usually won’t work. But if I mess around by plugging and unplugging both ends sometimes it will start charging.

In my previous experience with android devices, you could buy the shittiest of the shit accessories and they work fine. But with Apple I find that unless you buy official or certified, they won’t always work. Sometimes even the certified non official cables have issues from my experience.

This can’t just be a shitty hardware thing, can it? Or did Apple program their devices to actively block third party cables and chargers? I know in some cases you get a warning that the cable isn’t certified, but I rarely see that warning when using non MFI cables.