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The closest thing is Thunderbolt cases - they give you a PCIe slot to work with so you can add a USB-C card so +2 ports and may have ports of their own, this one has +2 ports as well (but you use 1 connecting to it). Some have ethernet ports too. Since a PCIe card doesn't even offer many additional ports I would guess they have to make available a lot of power to each port. The physical size and cost of this is disappointing compared to USB-3 hubs.
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thunderbolt-PCIe-Expansi...
Another alternative is to get a small NAS from Synology or QNAP and shift your USB drives to your LAN, some are also connectable via Thunderbolt but that only consolidates the two drives and the bandwidth is overkill for music/movies/backup.
https://synology.com https://qnap.com
You can also get multi-disk enclosures but they're 'dumb' peripherals, while a consumer NAS includes media consumption apps and stuff for phone/web/TV.
https://www.amazon.com/TerraMaster-D5-300C-Enclosure-Exclusi...