The nice thing about open source is that there's always *someone* doing whatever obscure thing the mainstream finds too niche. I'm sure there are people right now who have for decades been building smaller software, and maybe for a certain non-corporate group there can be a pivot to that stuff. To avoid an endless edge of new code to harden, you need to forgo compatibility with new software & hardware, which has until now meant relative uselessness. But given how the AI bubble is driving up hardware prices, and the fact that we've seen standards like USB mature to a point that feels like it could be stable for a decade or more, maybe the endless cycle of new hardware stuff just slows down in certain backwaters. Of course this is anathema to corporate strategies, but I wonder if given the fact that the churning edge will be nearly impossible to secure, maybe a chunk of consumers will find ways to be satisfied with a smaller more stable core.