I wish desktop chips would trade a little performance for more simplicity and robustness. Even at half-speed, they are still pretty damn fast, and a lot of the bleeding-edge stuff was pushed over to the GPU a long time ago.
The economics are also a little off. If this were something like ARM64, the eventual replacement chip would be a few bucks instead of a few hundred. In that situation, I wouldn't get too upset about it. It would be like, "Oh well, I guess I have an excuse to upgrade my CPU now."
"These days I spend more time optimizing code for ARM chips than for Intel chips. The real reason for this isn't any sort of assessment of current or future importance. The real reason is that ARM publishes the detailed pipeline documentation that I need, so squeezing out every last cycle for ARM is fun, while Intel hides the pipeline documentation, so squeezing out every last cycle for Intel is painful."
The economics are also a little off. If this were something like ARM64, the eventual replacement chip would be a few bucks instead of a few hundred. In that situation, I wouldn't get too upset about it. It would be like, "Oh well, I guess I have an excuse to upgrade my CPU now."