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When I was 25, I would have said "of course it's not a problem, they're both adults. As long as they're happy it's fine." and that is true, but now that I'm closer to 46 I have some additional caveats around "as long as they're happy".
You know how in order to really develop a skill, you have to do it for a long time? I think relationships are like that. If I were to compare it to chess, this scenario is kind of like someone who's been playing chess competitively for 20 years playing against someone playing their first major tournament. It doesn't mean that the more experienced player is guaranteed to win, or even that they're better at chess, but it does confer some advantage because playing in a tournament is very different from playing chess casually or in clubs. There's money at stake, your reputation is on the line, people may be watching you play and commentating in real time. It's just a different activity altogether, even though it is still technically "just playing chess". It really helps to get a few tournaments under your belt to get comfortable with the nerves, the additional tournament rules, publicly making a really stupid error, etc. If it's your first time you might make some rookie errors. That's part of being a rookie.
Where the analogy breaks down is that with chess, there is a brief competition with clear rules and referees, and there is (almost) always a clear outcome: win, lose, or draw. With relationships, A) it's supposed to be cooperative, not a competition, and B) if your relationship partner is skilled at manipulation, you could be in a losing position for a long time and not know it, because you haven't had the time to develop the skills necessary to identify what a dysfunctional adult relationship looks like.
This doesn't mean that a relationship with a small age gap can't be toxic, or that relationships with a large age gap can't be healthy and happy.
But
I have observed a pattern of older people (usually, but not exclusively, men) who serially date young adults because those young people don't recognize the signs of a toxic relationship. These are rookie errors, and there is no shame in them. Everyone that does anything new has a rookie period, and this includes adult relationships. These older people take advantage of that naivete instead of working on themselves to become the kind of partner that people want to stay with after really getting to know them. As soon as these young partners begin to understand these problems and challenge them, they end the relationship and trade them out for a younger model. You can be unhappy in a toxic relationship for a long time and be unable to identify why you are so unhappy, because they know the tricks. Undercut your partner's relationships with their other friends or family, accuse them of not being smart enough or loving enough or patient enough, make them financially dependent on you. There are a lot of tricks, and people refine their techniques with each partner. And when you've just started having adult relationships, you are at a serious disadvantage if you wind up in a relationship like this because you just haven't lived long enough to see firsthand how this kind of thing plays out.
It's not that there's anything intrinsically wrong with it, but it does ping my danger radar. My danger radar sometimes gets false readings, but I still pay attention to it.