I know it's been a long time since your post, but same exact thing happened with my 2016 MBP. It was fine when I first got it, but since the repair, the ports became extremely loose, so disconnects happen all the time (they had to replace the logic board because they accidentally tore a cable). Furthermore, they replaced my battery too, with a "new" one. A year later, the computer started shutting off randomly. It won't run on battery for more than 20 minutes now, and when I try to charge it, it becomes so hot that the casing of the laptop has expanded from the heat. This whole past generation of Macbook Pros has been a $2000 nightmare. Wondering if the 14 and 16" Macbook pros coming out later will finally be a return to the golden age of apple notebooks.
Do yourself a favor and do not buy a 2018-2019 MBP with the butterfly keyboard. But yes, the USB-C ports do continue to get loose at least on the 2018 models.
I wish more of the pro usb c crowd for iPhones would read this thread. All my usb c ports from my 2016 MacBook 12 to my mbp 16 ports all get loose after a year of heavy use. Meanwhile my hoary and abused work iPhone SE first gen lightning port is still tight and doesn’t unplug.
Yeah... my iPad Pro's USB C port is so tight that I have to REALLY yank on the cable to get it out. I could swing that thing like a jump rope and it would be ok. Sometimes it gets so stuck that I can barely pull the cable out and worry about damaging it.
