I had a 2017 (might a little older) MacBook pro used for work, bought a 3rd party adapter to have 2 monitors up and my MacBook closed and plugged into its charger. got a new MacBook pro 2020, tried to use the same adapter to extend the display but it would only recognize one of the monitors. i bought another adapter but that one would only mirror the display. technically close enough for what I wanted to do with it but not quite what I was going for. i wanted to extend the displays not mirror it. worst of all I cant even use a HDMI dock to charge and extend the display and use a usb-c to hdmi.
old way was better for multiple displays. i would think having the pro model would of made this easier.