Exactly the first thought I had, fellow old-timer.

It still happens, the modern standards just handle these impairments better with line coding, active equalization, and more sensitive modem electronics. And obviously now we have shielding requirements in the PHY for 2.5G and above. But basically as DSP got cheaper and more compact, they were able to throw more compute at the problem which made a huge difference.

I don't think I've seen a single data cable that didn't have some kinda shielding since the early nineties.

Velcro is almost always the way to go with cable management. Zip ties can easily damage the wire and encourage messy wiring since you have to cut and replace every one to change a single wire.

Wire lacing is OK for permanent installations, but good luck changing anything.

But you can cut a zip tie. This is terrible if you have to replace a cable.

You could also use tape tags on the ends, either color or number codes. Just mark both ends of each cable.

It's awful considering braided cable sleeve is orders of magnitude cheaper than IT labor.

They only teach girls how to braid in pre school then ostracise them out of becoming power techs.

We learned how to braid rope in scouts.

Or you could mark the bad one, replace the whole set, then unbraid and toss the marked one later in a dumb meeting you have better things to do than attend or something :p

*sextuple

Honestly that works as well