The two root causes of these sort of windows disappearing is what you've said (DPI) and just a change in tastes.
People now view those styles as kind of garish. Between that and the difficulty of making it work and look good at a variety of DPIs, it just wasn't going to stick around.
I admit, I like things to have some more color and texture. Simple black and white boxes are a bit soul crushing. But I see why they disappeared.
The problem with such infrastructure is not the initial development overhead.
It's the maintenance. The long term, slow burn, uninteresting work that must be done continually. Someone needs to be behind it for the long haul or it will never get adopted and used widely.
Right now, at least, LLMs are not great at that. They're great for quickly creating smaller projects. They get less good the older and larger those projects get.
I mean the claim is that next generation models are better and better at executing on larger context. I find that GPT 5.4 xhigh is surprisingly good at analysis even on larger codebases.
Stuff like this where these models are root causing nontrivial large scale bugs is already there in SOTA.
I would not be surprised if next generation models can both resolve those more reliability and implement them better. At that point would be sufficiently good maintainers.
They are suggesting that new models can chain multiple newly discovered vulnerabilities into RCE and privilege escalations etc. You can't do this without larger scope planning/understanding, not reliabily.
For toy projects good old Make is fine...but at some point a project gets large enough that you need something more powerful. If you need something that can deal with multiple layers of nested sub-repositories, third-party and first-party dependencies, remote and local projects, multiple build configurations, dealing with non-code assets like documentation, etc, etc, etc - Make just isn't enough.
I wouldn't call a card like the 5080 important. It was incremental compared to the previous generation, a poor value for money, and was awkwardly placed - being very cut down compared to the 90 class of that generation - significantly more than earlier generations.
People now view those styles as kind of garish. Between that and the difficulty of making it work and look good at a variety of DPIs, it just wasn't going to stick around.
I admit, I like things to have some more color and texture. Simple black and white boxes are a bit soul crushing. But I see why they disappeared.
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