Buried in a report about the AirPower was a tidbit suggesting that Apple considered removing the Lightning port in its entirety in the iPhone X. That is an amazingly bad idea right now for many reasons.
Source: macinsider

No Lightning or USB-C in a future iPhone is a very bad idea
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