While I agree with you, the thing with developers these days is that they will see an ad that says "We give our developers the best and fastest machines to do t

While I agree with you, the thing with developers these days is that they will see an ad that says "We give our developers the best and fastest machines to do their work", and they won't care about the reasoning behind using slow machines. I would bet that there's even a segment of developers who actually rely on Moore's law to overcome performance issues in their apps at release time.