> Unfortunately, some separately purchasable hardware components seem to be optimized completely for gamers these days

It turned out during the shitcoin craze and then AI craze that hardcore gamers, aka boomers with a lot of time and retirement money on their hands and early millennials working in big tech building giant-ass man caves, are a sizeable demographic with very deep pockets.

The wide masses however, they gotta live with the scraps that remain after the AI bros and hardcore gamers have had their pick.