There is one downside of the lightning plug/socket though. The socket it so open that the bottom of it slowly fills up with lint/fluff, which gets compacted at the end of the socket every time you plug it in.

Over a few months it builds up and stops the plug from seating properly, meaning you start to have to jiggle the plug to get it to charge. Or at least that is what happened on my iPhone 5, it hasn't happened yet on my 5s so maybe they made the socket deeper.

I had to fashion a tool out of a paperclip that I used to clear the fluff out when it started doing it.

Probably not an issue for someone who doesn't keep their phone in a front jeans pocket all the time (it seemed to be lint from the cotton pocket fabric).