[p1necone]

There's two separate use cases/markets both wanting the same product with significantly different budgets - gaming and crypto mining.

The crypto mining market has way more money to burn because they're making it back over time via mining, which means that unless there's enough supply for both markets the gaming market gets (almost) nothing until the crypto mining market has bought all the cards they want.

I have no idea what the solution to this problem is, and I don't think poorly designed driver restrictions is it. But it is an actual problem.

Are there any historical examples of similar situations?

[Guthur]

Supply and demand should normalize when enough capacity has been provided.

The challenge is at least two fold in my opinion, first of all semi conductor fabrication capacity is stretched right now and additional capacity has a significant capital requirement. Secondly it's probably not clear if crypto demand will stick around long enough to warrant additional capacity, the bottom has fallen out of it before.