[AndrewC]

But Inflation doesn't fall into that category.

It does when it invokes a disconnect from causality to explain matter achieving then exceeding the speed of light in vacuum limit.

[Moonman62]

But that isn't what Inflation invokes. It's space that "expands faster than light", not matter. The cosmic speed limit doesn't apply to space. If you'd been sitting on some of that matter, you'd have felt no acceleration whatsoever.