The new MacBook Air is a remarkably solid wafer of hardware, especially after the recent EFI Firmware Update that solved the occasional issue of graphics corruption when the Air wakes up from sleep.
Not a devastating problem compared to what's going on, but my son has the USB-C cable that connected my little Asus ZenScreen (MB169C) monitor to my 15" MacBook Pro (2017) - and he's in lockdown ...