Wait, do you have those reversed? Lightning cables have zero moving parts. The clips and other bits and bobs are in the phone. USBC is reversed, so that, with USBC, most failures mean replacing the cable, not the phone.
Every part is breakable. But USB-C puts the little roller-ball grabby bit (technical term) in the cable, not the port. That's the real wear item. Not that I've actually ever had it fail on me, in either standard, but on a pure theoretical basis it is.
