I looked into the thread to understand the context, I did not realize you quoted anything from anywhere. If you did my criticism of course applies to the source not you, although you could of course have made it a little more obvious that you were only quoting and not concluding yourself.
You have one thunderbolt 4 controller on each side of the Framework 13 which essentially limits each side to 40gbps of bandwidt
This statement is sadly completely wrong (well there are only 2 USB4 host routers, but that does in no way limit the PCIe throughput per side or limit the USB4 speed. That one is just ridiculous).
I even answered pretty much that to that user in the thread you are quoting from.
I do not know what you want me to take away from the other quotes. The first quote is about a USB3 drive, not any CPU.
And the 2nd one is from a thread I started and in which I responded to that answer.
And I do not think that anything in my above answer was speculation. This should all be backed up very well by the public specs etc. Speculation would be if I guessed how much power Framework actually supplies on the various non-TB4 ports or on the ports that do not even offer DP. Because I do not know. All I am saying, is 4.5W would be valid according to the spec for USB3 ports below 20 Gbps and should be the default assumption unless they say anything else official. More would be possible, especially over USB-C (although I do not think that USB-BC would be required for data ports).
And I am saying that Framework has so far done an abysmal job of defining what their ports can do and almost all of them are woefully unspecified. TB4 for the FW13 is the best specification, because it includes so much that Framework does not mention at all.
And in this post I go over what they should specify in my opinion to actually provide good and clear specifications.