For as long as they have competition, I will support those companies instead. If they all fail, I guess I will start one. My spite for them knows no limits
The 1080ti can be analogized to Sandy Bridge/The 2600k: Insane performance per dollar, generous binning, and plenty of room left for overclocking. Held up with minimal concessions for a decade, still fine with mild compromises past that.
Every generation since? Gives less and less, all Nvidia can do is all they've ever done: press up against the aspect limit of the dies and lean into their massive scale. What's fun about this go round is that the lines are far blurrier between Consumer & Enterprise, a bunch of 5090s is not hamstrung from doing the things a B200 can in the way a 2600k or i9 is compared to a xeon processor. On top of this, there is an entire cottage industry dedicated to adding additional VRAM to old cards and harvesting GPUs from otherwise broken video cards and swapping them onto new boards.