With the end of Moore's law, won't this kind of thing become increasingly necessary, though? I agree with you about the problems of closed-source - but I feel

With the end of Moore's law, won't this kind of thing become increasingly necessary, though? I agree with you about the problems of closed-source - but I feel like the end of Moore's law will encourage creative solutions to performance problems - which FPGAs would at least make technically possible. And, even if it's like the old days when people bought compilers and access to source, people will still do it - since it'll be the best way to get an edge on the competition.