If what you care about is games for their own sake, that's as valid a perspective as any other. My perspective is very different, because I care about games no

If what you care about is games for their own sake, that's as valid a perspective as any other. My perspective is very different, because I care about games not for their own sake, but for their spin-off benefits: chips whose R&D was paid for by gamers, are being used to design aircraft, discover life-saving medicines, unravel the secrets of the universe. From that perspective, abandoning the tech arms race in games abandons that which was valuable about the enterprise in the first place.