Well its both. They compliment their own lineup, and save money by removing the port from the design.
Apple then created a new port. It might be substantially cheaper and/or heavily marked up in price.
Probably both. I have often wondered why Apple has not ditched the lightning port and gone to USB-C on their phones. Perhaps they plan to skip USB-C and go portless.
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I wouldn’t mind this all too much, the new phones last so long on a charge that there isn’t a reason I need to use my phone while charging tbh. Two things though, one is travel and the other speed. If they can charge wirelessly at like 20-30W then great, but if it’s still the 7.5 that would be a step backwards imo. The thing with travel, am I going to have to bring a wireless charger with me? That’s too bulky and it would be crappy to have to plug that in at the airport. Aside from that, I’m game.
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Same as the last Apple feature. Wait to be ubiquous first, then go cross device.
That is Apple’s M.O. Except currently Apple’s port methodology is really broken. I have a 2018 13" MacBook Pro with 4 USB-C ports and nothing else. I have an iPhone 11 with a lightning port. The two won’t connect to each other without dongles or special cables. Regular iPads have Lightning. iPad Pros have USB-C. I guess it is good for dongle sales 
That and confusing the consumer. Face ID, Touch ID, keyboards. I expected that with software features only because of the device generation. I don’t want to have to worry about dongles either.