Mousepad thickness is the wrong thing to worry about.

It doesn’t matter.

For typing, your wrist angle comes from the keyboard height and whether you use a palm rest, not from the 2–5mm difference between mousepads. Same for gaming. Your wrist angle while mousing is determined by the height of the mouse relative to the desk surface—whether you’re on a thin cloth pad or a thick gel one, that changes by maybe 3mm. That’s not enough to cause or