Live in Sweden, not true for pretty much all apartments I have lived in on the west coast. And it was quite a few because foreigner coming to Sweden and not buying a place to stay immediately means moving at least once a year. Not one had the lamp plug where the lamp was, all the plugs are at a nearby wall so you have to hang the cable over to the lamp.
Not saying what you say doesn’t exist, but to my experience it is not standard.
The newer apartments have different plugs though, like this one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_for_Connection_of_Luminaires
Yeah, this one and the same crap for the Outlook 365 stuff. So we can currently decide if we want to try the new Outlook, which removes a bunch of features I use, or just not switch to the new Outlook.
You would think the “old” Outlook then stays the same until we are forced to switch, but no, recently they changed the whole look of it somehow. I thought I got the update to new Outlook now by force but actually it is still the old Outlook, soooo, what?