Sorry, but Apple's updated MacBook is a huge disappointment

Before the trolls slide into the comment section, know this: I've owned and currently own a lot ofApple products. 

The scratches and dents on my iPhone 6 are scars of love. My aging iPad 3 remains my favorite sofa companion. I paid a boatload to spec out my 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with a 3.0GHz Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage so I wouldn't need to replace it for years to come. I bought an Apple Watch, despite third-party apps being next to useless on it.

Nobody can accuse me of being anti-Apple. But I am disappointed with the refresh made to the 12-inch MacBook. 

When my colleague and resident Apple geek Christina Warren reviewed the 12-inch MacBook last year, I agreed with her assessment that it, while lacking power and sufficient ports, would be what all laptops would eventually look like.

The 2016 update to the MacBook remains a beautifully machined aluminum laptop. The Retina display is stunning, the profile is thin, the machine ultra-light, and the trackpad top-notch. The keyboard is too shallow, but something I could adjust to.

But there are some key missing and inferior features Apple failed to correct. The company squandered an entire year with a minor hardware component update and the addition of a new rose gold color (which is hideous in my opinion, and something I'd expect from HP, not Apple).

The most upsetting news is the new MacBook still has a single USB-C port. For the love of Steve Jobs, why isn't there another port? The original MacBook Air was beautifully constructed, but only had one USB port. Apple remedied that two years later with by adding a second USB port and an SD card slot.

USB-C, as it's spread to more devices (like the LG G5), is right on track to becoming the one port to rule them all, but Apple's still making it dongle hell for users. A year later and this disgusting rat's-nest of adapters and dongles is still the only way to connect to many existing accessories: