I honestly didn't realize people still paid such a premium for aged bitcoins. I mean, before yes, before the 2017 rally I kinda understood it, Mt Gox coins and hacked coins and illegal coins etc but now Bitcoin fungibility is the thing, and there is no such thing as 1 bitcoin is more/less worth than another.
Or can someone correct me?

Bitcoin has never been fungible. Bitcoin from different source (such as from centralized exchange and mixer) still treated differently.
Many don't have a working wallet
Not if you count their full node software (usually forked from Bitcoin Core) which also have wallet functionality. The downside is you need to download few hundred GB of blockchain and hope there are reliable peer to get the block.