Well, my conclusion after many years, echoed by one of the themes of Nature article including the lock step nature of node moves, is that Moore's Law is more on

Well, my conclusion after many years, echoed by one of the themes of Nature article including the lock step nature of node moves, is that Moore's Law is more one of economics than anything else. So I focus on that original definition of it, it seems to be the essence of it and its implications. Now, if you're in the weeds of designing a chip or node, yeah, things like feature size are paramount, but why are you going to the trouble of moving to a new node in the first place, especially with the end of Dennard scaling a decade+ ago? Power consumption could be an alternative to the raw economics, or maybe taking up less space in the smaller mobile form factors. Intel's leading with mobile chips for some reason.