> And when that happens people STILL won’t be able to afford the hardware.
Of course they will - if that happens all these AI token providers won't have a use for all that hardware they bought. You'll be buying used H100s and H200s off eBay for pennies on the dollar.
Then those datacenters will barely need any new GPUs, so the companies making them will be desperate to get gamers to buy cards and set very competitive prices.
If that's the plan (there is no plan) then it expires at some point, because it's a spiral and such spirals always bottom out.