Clearly, the US should upgrade to a BS1363 plug and socket system. 
NEMA connectors are chabuduo designs from the ancient past.
British plugs are a prime example of design committee suffering from health & safety variant of OCD.
CEE 7/7 is the pragmatic compromise.
Yeah yeah yeah shucko / CEE7 / blah blah blah. No thanks.
Trying to unplug my charger and the socket comes off the wall and look what's in there - things to touch!


Also generally used in places where electrical "safety" looks like this

Those are two separate places for ref over 100 miles apart. Not the same place.
Also they had a hair dryer you could use while showering in another place.
Now, now, now. The fault in the first picture is a truly global one. Possible with all outlets. It is unfair to attribute that to CEE 7/7.
Second, having had some familiarity with where you take your pictures, I posit that the bathroom horror, is not, in fact, a CEE 7/7. Nor is it a CEE 7/1, the closest lookalike. I believe it is a GOST 7396 socket.
Further,
there is no such thing as a 7/7 socket. 7/7 refers to the plug that is compatible with both the 7/3 socket (German style "Schuko", two exposed ground rails.) and the 7/5 socket ("French outlet", with a protruding ground pin, also, for the benefit of people who still think we're running DC, polarised).
Go read the
Wikipedia page. It is informative.
Finally, I like the Schuko. When installed properly, it will easily carry the 10A it was allowed to do before the EU changed the laws of physics in Sweden and allowed it to carry 16.
If you want more, there's
IEC 60309. Which is a right proper standard for high current.