[Deltionsjsj]

No one needed crypto to by GPUs.

GPUs were and still are in high demand anyway.

Crypto blocked real innovation for years.

Nvidia was spending money, time and energy to cater to them one way or the other instead of other areas were GPUs are actually good for society.

Your sentence is very generic and not sure why this should be an universal law. Putting money into the right thing might cause innovation not just money

[sebzim4500]

Weren't GPU manufacturers going out of their way to prevent people from using their GPUs to mine?

[addicted]

They did this for some tiny subset of GPUs, and they achieved this largely by making those GPUs worse for even non mining purposes than the ones they replaced.

[Deltionsjsj]

They did this only for alibi reasons.

Everyone Noncrypto is a long term customer getting the middle finger from them because they used the opportunity.