I'm not saying it's wrong but people are reacting to this as if the Times university guide is some objective truth.
Regarding the potential lowering of standards for widening participation purposes, this doesn't change the fact that the entry standards for Oxford and Cambridge are still higher than LSE and St. Andrews.
There are plenty of people who are aware of the "trade-off" of using their products but are still happy to do so. Just because they've come to a different conclusion to you doesn't mean they are in some way "wrong" to do that.
This is where you ask ChatGPT to describe the Studio Ghibli art style and then use that to create a prompt. It's an annoying extra step but it can get good results.
Some very cynical comments on this thread. Maybe, just maybe the older hardware isn't really capable of running these features properly and it's not some evil conspiracy to "force" users into upgrading?
I think they answer your question in the PSU section “Raspberry Pi 5 consumes significantly less power, and runs significantly cooler, than Raspberry Pi 4 when running an identical workload.”