2 cables for a monitor that will be used for about a decade or so, with a length that is typically long enough for any desk setup so that you don’t have to trial and error cables types/lengths will probably reduce the amount of cables that the user will end up ordering.
If the monitor comes with no cables, someone might end up ordering a 3ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which ends up being too short. Then they’ll order a 6ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which is the correct length, but isn’t the correct cable to fully utilize that monitor. Then a few years go by and they upgrade their GPU and realize that their monitor isn’t displaying to its potential, so they finally order the correct 6ft HDMI 2.1b cable.
Ask me how I know that has happened before 😂 (it was me).
2 cables for a monitor that will be used for about a decade or so, with a length that is typically long enough for any desk setup so that you don’t have to trial and error cables types/lengths will probably reduce the amount of cables that the user will end up ordering.
If the monitor comes with no cables, someone might end up ordering a 3ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which ends up being too short. Then they’ll order a 6ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which is the correct length, but isn’t the correct cable to fully utilize that monitor. Then a few years go by and they upgrade their GPU and realize that their monitor isn’t displaying to its potential, so they finally order the correct 6ft HDMI 2.1b cable.
Ask me how I know that has happened before 😂 (it was me).
So if your monitor came with 2 cables and your gpu came with 2 cables, thats 4 cables instead of 3.
No GPU should ever come with video cables. Thats where unnecessary waste would come from IMO.
But in your scenario, that was exactly where you needed a new cable, even though you had the right one before then.
If I had been provided the correct cables initially, i would not have had to play cable roulette.
(It was a used monitor that I had purchased that did not come with any cables.)