No software -> hardware is massively hobbled. Evidence: AMD. Ecosystem -> Software. At the moment especially people are looking for arbitrages everywhere i.e.

No software -> hardware is massively hobbled. Evidence: AMD. Ecosystem -> Software. At the moment especially people are looking for arbitrages everywhere i.e. inference costs / being able to inference at all (llama.cpp) Academics -> Also software but easily fiddled with a bit of spending as you say.