Totally agree with you on principle. As a person that has always been ultra full stack, jack of all trades developer (lots of browsers, hundreds of tabs, IDEs,

Totally agree with you on principle. As a person that has always been ultra full stack, jack of all trades developer (lots of browsers, hundreds of tabs, IDEs, servers and the occasional WoW window). The huge benefit of multi core was jump from 1 to 2 (mostly to fix the annoying 100% cpu usage with no way to kill). The benefits from 2 to 4 were marginal at best. So we just don't have to climb much more from there. And for really parallelizable loads we have the GPU.