"Niche functionality" that is ballooning the price of their graphics cards for end users?
> adds the possibility that some workloads of non crypto currency origins fall foul of this in ways that may not be easy to discern.
So what? The proof is in the pudding. You buy things as they are sold, not with some kind of expectation that you can achieve 100% of the theoretical performance of some ideal version of the product. If I buy a car with a limiter that doesn't let me go over 100mph, I shouldn't be surprised or upset that I can't hit 105 mph.
> adds the possibility that some workloads of non crypto currency origins fall foul of this in ways that may not be easy to discern.
So what? The proof is in the pudding. You buy things as they are sold, not with some kind of expectation that you can achieve 100% of the theoretical performance of some ideal version of the product. If I buy a car with a limiter that doesn't let me go over 100mph, I shouldn't be surprised or upset that I can't hit 105 mph.