In my experience at least, things go a lot better when people have your name and address, especially when you're somewhat known in the space. But as always, it's a risk/reward thing - if you have the choice between trusting someone to help you, or being stuck forever out of your wallet, some people don't have much to lose and decide to share the details. In the current case case OP seem quite tech litterate, so they also have the option to wait for moore's law to do it's job and crack the wallet in 10 years, which tbh is also a valid strategy.

The reason it's a new account is simply because I never posted here before - I don't have a "main" account.

As I said, I run a seed related business and part of that business consists in writing highly optimized code for those use cases, which I monetize. I know by experience that trust is paramount, which is why one of the first things I do when I talk to a potential customer is dox myself - I'm somewhat traceable so it helps with credibility.
Of course I could tell OP how to solve his problem but he seems to already know what needs to be done to bruteforce the five remaining words. If he did not solve it by himself already given the monetary incentive to do so, it means he might need help. I happen to have the optimized code and the resources to do it, so I'm offering it.

I know the crypto space is filled with scams, so caution is warranted. That's why I was proposing to show I'm legit.

JGoodwin10 - I tried to contact you via message but you have an anti spam filter on, so I'll post this here.

I do have the software and GPU access to bruteforce a 19/24 mnemonic for about 4.5k USD of resource usage (I run a seed recovery business) - So let me know if this is something that might be of interest to you.
Happy to demo the tool and it's speed on a 20/24, for instance.