When I last had an everyday carry USB stick (5+ years ago) I found I never actually used it for anything.
I had Ventoy and some practical ISOs, and PortableApps with a bunch of useful software (firefox, foobar2000, GIMP, notepad++…) for when I was using someone else’s Windows PC.
…think I stored like two word documents on it, ever.
What I feel would be acceptable:
What this looked like to me:
The issue isn’t even what they’re asking for, but how their asking it.