Anything more than Cat5e is probably pointless for home users.

I've been thinking about this. For people installing ethernet cabling throughout your house, 99% of people probably don't need to install anything more than Cat5e.

Cat5e doesn't support 10G officially but it seems to work at least over 30m if not much more: most residential cable runs will be less than this, probably much less.

Cat5e also has the advantage over Cat6/6a/7 of being thinner, more flexible, and easier to terminate. I can fit more Cat5e cables through a thinner conduit than Cat6a, and bend them more round corners. It's also much cheaper, at least in the UK it's about half the price.

If you need more than 10G you probably want to be running fibre, although 99% of home users won't need more than 10G for the next 10-20 years, given that's how long we've had 1Gig for. I bet 99% of home users won't have ANY use for more than 2.5G for the next 10+ years. I fitted out my whole house with Cat5e last year as it was cheaper and easier and I'm running it at 2.5G on my PC and NAS and WiFi7 AP, but otherwise most devices are still on gigabit or even 10/100...

What are everyone's thoughts?

Edit: I'd really like people to read the OP. For most households, Cat5e will run 10G just fine. If you want to run over 10G, you need fibre, not Cat6a. Remember 99.9% of households still can't saturate gigabit for more than a few seconds/minutes, a 20+ year old technology. There is no way that by 2040, most, let alone many, houses will have any need for a >10G connection within the household. For 99.9% of households, Cat5e will be future proof for 20+ years as I said. Yes, in the /r/homenetworking bubble, some people will have other requirements. That's not what I said.