Multiple tings: Desktop PCs have become a niche, more people have laptops than Desktop PCs, so that already reduces the market for dedicated internal sound car

Multiple tings: Desktop PCs have become a niche, more people have laptops than Desktop PCs, so that already reduces the market for dedicated internal sound cards significantly. Desktop PC motherboards now come with integrated DACs that are "good enough", and if you care enough that they aren't, you'd have a hard time arguing for an internal solution over an external one anyway.