Hot take: 26 year olds should not fuck 19 year olds.
It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.
I could believe a lot of such relationships aren't for the best, but I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18 and 31 years my senior @ 28. With that background, I'm fine with it personally.
When I was 18 and in college I dated a 33 year old. I was fully aware of what I was doing and of the age gap. Don’t really see what’s so problematic about it
If you, at 35, will date an 18 yo, what’s stopping you from dating a 17 or 16 yo other than legality? You clearly already find people that age attractive.