[tempoponet]

It's always been a function of price, I've been shouting this for years: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/09/moore/

> The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.

It's incredible how deeply ingrained this misinterpretation has been, even among the very technical, without ever examining its original source or phrasing.