We are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen thr

We are talking about workstations, and 4 years ago the best ones were those with ~8cores, maybe more if we consider start of the threadripper era. First gen threadripper had many issues and those were ironed out over the years. Also the performance per core increased a lot so I don't think the progress wasn't as small. I agree that phones that are 4 years old are fine for most of the daily stuff, and even haswell PCs are still perfectly OK for the office, but this segment is a bit different and depending on the use case even earlier updates might be useful (like switching to pcie4/5 etc). btw since I meant 4 years from now it also means that those unsupported workstations are not even new today, they could be running 2+years already, and 6 years upgrade cycle is not that bad