I am not sure they impress many people any more, in the sense that only a few specific use cases benefit from them and awaits them, while the needs of a vast ma

I am not sure they impress many people any more, in the sense that only a few specific use cases benefit from them and awaits them, while the needs of a vast majority of people on the consumer market have been satisfied with low end devices for quite many years. It was very different across the '90s, when improvements in speed and capacity were tremendous and had an actual and dramatic impact on almost everyone's usage. There were also massive price drops in those days; now for many years prices are pretty stable (I guess they couldn't really go much lower), the only notable exception of which I can think is the SSD price/GB which finally dropped significantly during the last 2(?) years).