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I have a hard time considering any problem that can be solved by adding a label to the product "hard." If every cable was required to have the name of the highest-numbered spec it implements, e.g. "USB-4" or "USB-2.1", both of these problems would either become non-problems or, at least reduced to "go buy the correct cable."

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Only if someone enforces that labeled cables are correct. While that is done in theory, I have a USBA to USBA cabel for some DVD drive, why wasn't the manufacture sued to recall all those devices (they don't claim it is USB they just use the USB connectors for their own protocol)

Make it part of the standard. If you license the standard, and you say you're implementing it, that requires you to actually implement it. Done.

You don't have to license USB, you just need a VID. The USB-IF is planning to enforce some of the labels with trademark law, but (for example) for the Nintendo Switch Nintendo often didn't mention that the connector was USB-C, so that wouldn't work.

So? Make USB X+1 require a license to use the name. It ain't rocket surgery.

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