This is a development kit, so the transmitted signals / pinout could have nothing in common with regular usb-c and they just needed more lanes than one usb-c cable can provide, leading them to develop this monstrosity.
Similar to the PCIe extenders that use USB3 male to male or HDMI as their connector / cable.





Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.
Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples
This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.