Take for example an epson 1680 scanner, or tons of other devices.
Moving it will require a reinstallation of the driver, and you can't
just point Windows at the location of the drivers, which are already
there. Printers are notorious for this bull****, too.

No wonder you're farbissen.

I've never seen this with USB. USB is keyed to the device's description --
not to a specific port.