There should be no problem docking a micro USB device as it would not just use the connector that you have to line up. It would have a couple of pins either side on the dock that go into the device (phone/iPod). Laptops have been doing it that way for years and have never had a socket fail on one (I'm a computer engineer).
On the breaking of the micro USB connections I call it miss treatment as you would have to tug them around to actually break one as simply connecting/disconnecting them with a slight pull they are not going to break.
Maybe they are not as strong as the old connections, but you need them smaller for the devices to get stronger and they were always bigger than you ever needed.
I have had 2 micro USB mobiles (at the same time as one was my own and one personal) over 1.5 years and 2.5 years and have never had a problem with them and that's disconnecting them and reconnecting them up 10 times a day as I plug them in the car charger between jobs/collecting parts, then also at home along with connecting to my laptop to sync the data/tether to the internet.