[faster]

I think standards in general are confusing to the average person. The average person doesn't care about standards, they care about completing a task: can I use this cable to connect my Mac to a 4k Monitor? Can it pass all the power that my device needs from my charger? Will this cable be a bottleneck if I connect it to my external SSD storage?

None of my computers support USB4 today, but I'm buying USB4 cables so I don't have to waste so much time looking for a cable that will do a particular job.

I want to say that I will only buy cables that are labeled clearly with capabilities and bandwidth but I'm not sure that is a promise I can keep.

[easygenes]

Worth noting: the USB cables I have which reliably work at 20Gbps currently are considerably bulkier than other cables. Thicker wire AWG and more shielding. They're not always the most practical and they're considerably more costly.

Also, I had to test quite a few cables which were sold as supporting 20Gbps before finding ones that actually worked, so pre-buying ones which supposedly work at a certain rate when you cannot test that may not be the most prudent approach.