See you’re looking at it from the point of view that it would serve the player experience, but that’s not what it’s for, it’s to mine your data

It’s not rational, it’s virtue signalling for the owning class. It’s saying “we are pious believers in the neoliberal order and we are happy to treat our employees like shit”.

People who previously were at the high end of GPU can now afford used H100s -> they sell their GPUs -> we can maybe afford them

I dont think that follows, people can have different needs for different products even if they think in the same way (but i agree with your overall point)