More than I expected. My theory was if only rich people can afford upgrades, video game tech stalls too or at the very least caters/scales down to commonly owned weaker hardware. Therefore I wouldn’t need to buy anything long term besides replacement parts for potential hardware failures which haven’t been common in my lived experience. We’ll see how it pans out.

My main concern is monopoly and permanent higher pricetags from many vendors going out of business as AI sucks the air out of the hobbyist room.