> Like do you look at the latest laptop from today and be like "pfft laptops were a thing since the 80s whatever". Thats asinine

No, but I don't say something like "I don't know about that, MBP M3 launched in 22 and its pretty cool" in response to "I can't think of a major technology product invented in the last, say 5 years, that actually served to fulfill a need that I had."

This stuff is iterative, which is fine--even good! But the valuations and hype are "we invented a new thing", and that's grift bullshit.