Your post makes sense if you bought the hardware for other reasons, and maybe run models occasionally as a novelty.

That isn't the case for many, though, and there is a whole social media space where people are hyping up the latest homebrew options for running models, believing it frees them from the yoke of big AI.

Millions of people are buying big $ maxed-out hardware like the Mac Studios or DGX specifically to run LLMs. Someone rationally running the numbers is a good thing.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Millions, really? I can believe there are a lot of enthusiasts doing this, but "millions" needs a citation.