Having or liking pets. Pictures of then I can see the appeal of, but the living beings are annoying at best or downright scary.

Never grew up with them, was always silently judged for being afraid of my classmates’ pets if I came over

This sounds solvable, doesn’t it? Have the extension cable have a chip saying it can do X at maximum, then compare with whatever is to be extended and communicate the minimum of both upstream. Might not become a sleek cable-like design, but would extend the 240W cable with the extender safely staying at 120W