I think its even simpler than that. The cohort with the largest amount of spare cash flow and moderate amounts of hobby time right now (35 to 55 year old roughl

I think its even simpler than that. The cohort with the largest amount of spare cash flow and moderate amounts of hobby time right now (35 to 55 year old roughly) remembers that era of computing fondly from their childhood. Its the same reason junk cars from the 1950s were all the rage in the 1990 to ~ 2010 era. Whatever the current aggregate richest in spare cash flow remembers positively from their youth gets a resurgence