I don’t think a vocal minority under the sway of what it sounds like you’re describing as ill-intentioned propaganda (I mean, that’s a serious word but the shoe

I don’t think a vocal minority under the sway of what it sounds like you’re describing as ill-intentioned propaganda (I mean, that’s a serious word but the shoe seems to fit) is a particularly good proxy for the overall preferences and welfare of everyone in the ecosystem. To the extent that legitimate enthusiasts and early adopters and people trying to get the most out of their gear under resource constraints have a clear consensus, yeah, you want to be listening carefully. But that doesn’t really sound like what you’re describing. I hang out more on the “accelerated compute” parts of the “GPU Internet” than the “gaming” parts, but certainly over here in LocalLLaMA land, we want working, documented firmware, and cards that aren’t overkill on some things and weak AF on others (4090). That’s an effort to manipulate nosebleed margins by making the ostensible “prosumer/enthusiast” offering just kind of bad at everything (Quattro) except maybe CAD or Blender. In gaming it seems like a cost-constrained public would be best served by credible offerings ranging from “the minimum to play modern stuff at a very attractive price” (I remember the 1060 being very well-received here), up to “Crysis at a million FPS” at Veblen, elaborate bespoke case, over clock with active cooling, and a sensible set of options along the way. I don’t do enough gaming these days to have strong views, so please educate me if you’re an avid gamer and I’m full of shit, but both major gaming vendors seem to have good options for most budgets on mainstream platforms. That’s just nothing to do with the 2T cap and 55.58% Net Profit Margins us llama.cpp folks are up in arms about.