Not to discount how cool healthy competition is, but i recently got a Ryzen 5 1600 (used), which came out in 2017 and its 6 cores and 12 threads have been enoug

Not to discount how cool healthy competition is, but i recently got a Ryzen 5 1600 (used), which came out in 2017 and its 6 cores and 12 threads have been enough for every workload that i've wanted to deal with, even in 2022. It was a nice upgrade up from Ryzen 3 1200 that i had previously and honestly, i don't see myself upgrading again for the years to come, unless things become visibly slow and sluggish because of Wirth's law (let's assume that in 2030 most of my desktop apps would run Electron instances). It does gaming, it does programming, it renders videos, it does 3D modelling and other content creation, it compiles code and runs Docker containers and oftentimes multiple of those at the same time with no overclocking and no issues (e.g. render a video in kdenlive while playing a game in the background). Somehow it feels like either hardware has scaled to the point where new improvements are pretty incremental, or maybe software's ability to be wasteful with the provided resources thankfully still hasn't caught up with these improvements - you no longer really need to get a new CPU every 2 or 3 years, even the Ryzen 3 1200 which also came out in 2017 was adequate (i just got a good deal on the upgrade), which is really nice to see! Even my homelab servers still run used Athlon 200GE CPUs from 2018 because of the 35W TDP and are on par with cloud resources that i can otherwise afford for my 24/7 available cloud stuff, just much cheaper when you consider how long they last. Also, there's something really cool about every device in my home (apart from laptops) running on the same CPU socket and all of the parts being interchangeable with no driver update weirdness. Though it'd be even better if the Ryzen CPUs were the variety with iGPUs, given the GPU prices still otherwise being pretty unfortunate (in case my RX 570 would break). The only reasons that i see for upgrading my setup in the next 5 years would be one of the following: - the stocks of used CPUs drying up or prices rising (AliExpress still has them pretty affordable) - the motherboards themselves getting deprecated or there being other unforseen issues Here's hoping that won't happen and that i can enjoy CPUs that are suitable for my needs (and help avoid the e-waste issue at least somewhat), while those more well off financially than me can dabble with the more recent releases to their heart's content!