Here's the PCB. You can see that they already had to make it non-rectangular to give us room for the HDMI + TRRS jacks, if they just did the same on the opposite side they'd have room for the VGA.

Maybe they were reusing an plastic injection mold and didn't have one with a VGA hole, but they had one with USB and still wanted to add VGA?

https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/262/467/312/695/857/original/ebeb42f5c2876ac4.jpeg