while I don't disagree with the facts, I don't understand the... tone? when Dennard scaling (single core performance) started to fail in 90s-00s, I don't think

while I don't disagree with the facts, I don't understand the... tone? when Dennard scaling (single core performance) started to fail in 90s-00s, I don't think there was a sentiment "how stupid was it to believe such a scaling at all"? sure, people were compliant (and we still meme about running Crysis), but in the end the discussion resulted in "no more free lunch" - progress in one direction has hit a bottleneck, so it's time to choose some other direction to improve on (and multi-threading has now become mostly the norm) I don't really see much of a difference?