In the alternate reality where this happened, wouldn't the price of DDR4 still be sky high? We'll ignore any costs for CPU, chip set, and motherboard redesign. You're just pushing the demand somewhere else.

> any costs for CPU, chip set, and motherboard redesign.

Yes they spent those costs to switch from DDR4 to over-priced DDR5 and I suggested the cost could be spent on adding more DDR4 channels instead.