[angry_octet]

Braided works fine? I have plenty of Ugreen and others from Amazon, what matters is what's inside.

[greggsy]

I should qualify that the vast majority of braided stuff I have accumulated over the years is junk.

thats over ten years products freebies, packs of 3 bought on the cheap, a few ‘fancier’ ones here and there, and at least a couple of emergency airport and gas station purchases.

[somat]

True, braided has absolutely nothing to do with the specs of the cable, but braided "feels" higher quality, so I suspect quite a few manufacturers think they can skimp on the cable quality because of that.

[jambalaya8]

It doesn't just feel like high quality... a lot of bending results in fewer cable replacements necessary, usually.