I agree with your points [2][3]. Why is this so hard for vendors to understand? It is an old idea called "mind share" [1] or in this case technical-mind-share,

I agree with your points [2][3]. Why is this so hard for vendors to understand? It is an old idea called "mind share" [1] or in this case technical-mind-share, a vendor should want the largest possible community of technical people interacting with their technology and attempting to use it in as many niches as possible. I'm not sure it even has to be uniformly cheap, as long as there is a low-cost entry point to hook people. If the price ratchets up from that low entry point but it is a compelling solution people will want it in their technical lives and get it funded somehow. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_share https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_share [2] I would point to RISC-V as another example of a newly popular machine architecture due to its initial low-cost. [3] noting the preferenced technology must meet the minimal acceptable threshold for all the usual dimensions.