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It's already having deeper consequences, if their purchases affect RAM and storage prices, then it means it yields results better than half a year ago.
I agree about "good enough". I felt that "good enough" moment in year 2006. In year 2009 even more. Some people remember Amiga Workbench of year 1999 stage as "good enough".
I don't think it matters which of these is closer to the equilibrium, we'll learn empirically.
But I'm feeling better that it's having a hard power redistribution from consumer sector to datacenter sector, that's not a bad thing, because most of that consumer sector was based on the bullshit you are describing. It didn't need to, but all the potent avenues of said sector's development were strangled by RIAA, "protect the children", "there are wrong people saying wrong things in the Internet" and other such pressures. And also by Steve Jobs and his idea that you don't need ergonomics or usefulness, just a sci-fi look and a brand, I think that'll take years to rectify, even though people are slowly getting tired of the "touchscreens are the future, physical buttons are fossil" narrative.
That bullshit drain means that we'll have a better, healthier consumer sector eventually. And perhaps in 10 years or so something interesting will be happening there. Life is about change and movement.