“Our Sun was Late to the Milky Way’s Baby Boom Party”
If it had formed at the beginning, we would all have been dead for 5 billion years.
We’d all look like Kieth Richards?
Actually, if our Solar System had formed at the beginning of the “birth” of our Galaxy, we would never have existed.
Consider that our Galaxy began as primarily Hydrogen and Helium. Stars born from this “starter material”, specifically exceptionally large, short life stars, expired and expelled elements (formed from the short lifespan and death of these “progenitor” stars) across the galaxy that in turn were available when “young” stars, such as our sun, were “born”, which had these heavier elements to draw from when our Solar System was “created”.