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70s thru 90s computing and even into the early 2000s every new bit of computer meant new capabilities.

Eventually it plateaued and now you can do a decent chunk of your computing on something from 2012.

People keep saying scaling will top out, for example. But scaling keeps stubbornly refusing. New techniques keep coming along too. It's really still exploding into existence and every new generation brings new capability. Eventually it'll clear a ceiling for your key use cases and you'll stop worrying about new models.

It always pays to look back at history and see if you can pattern match.