I recently built a 9950x3d system and it definitely runs hotter/louder than my other builds. To be fair, it also has a 5090 in it, but I liquid cool the 9950 and over all the system is just hot. If I saw 165W rated on a 170W system, I think that kind of just answers it, I see no reason not to overcool a system with high end electronics on it, and there's no reason to toe the line so closely.
Can’t speak for the person above but we keep a lot of configuration files in git and could easily write a thousand new configs in a single PR, or adding a new key to all the configs for example.
having the tech doesn't build the actual fabs, and a two or three year halt in production or a transfer of that production from Taiwan to China while the US builds up its own production would be devastating for the US.