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  The 5V5A supply is optional, the Pi 5 alone works perfectly fine using a standard 5V3A USB-PD supply, it just limits the maximum combined USB port current to 600mA. But *technically* they are still in USB-PD spec: it's apparently okay for a charger to support 5V5A, and a device to "prefer" to use that if it's available. It can't be required, but as said, the Pi 5 works with 5V3A, so it isn't. It's still dumb, and they should have just used 9V3A instead and paid...

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  I'm sorry you look so old. I do too, I basically never get carded, and really never did. My friend that's actually a year older than me still gets carded every single time, and he's 36.