There's a certain slowdown in hardware if you are familiar with PC hardware.

If you bought a PC in 1995 it would be something like.. let's make it high end - Pentium 100, 16Mb of RAM, 1Gb HDD, 4Mb video card. - if you had the money. My PC at the time was 1/3 as powerful.

In 2005 the same money would buy 2.4Ghz Athlon 64 4000+, 2Gb of RAM (if not 4) 7800GT Nvidia card, 80Gb HDD

It was like 100x better in multiple ways. 50x frequency, 100x+ CPU processing power, 100-150x more RAM, 80x bigger (and nearly that much faster) hard drive and I didn't even mention GPU yet.

Now let's do the same for 2022 PC and 2012 PC.

In 2012 for consumer mid range you'd get 2600k or 2700k intel CPU which was 4core/8thread CPU at nearly 4Ghz for $300-350. Or you could go for 6core/12thread for $600+ Common RAM sizes were 16Gb+ for high end. 2Tb HDD was easy to score under $120 +256Gb boot SSD and GTX 680 would be a common choice for a high end GPU.

What can you get today for the same money? You'd be lucky to get 3x higher single thread performance and 10x multi thread performance with 7900x, you'd probably go for 32Gb of RAM. You'll likely go for 2Tb SSD, maybe you'll get two of them skipping HDD entirely. And the only really noticeable difference would be GPU - that's the only part that would actually be 6x faster than anything else in PC.

So you barely got 2-3x higher performance for anything except GPU and multi threading. Memory and storage capacities maybe doubled in 10 years, instead of 50-100x previously in 95-2005

What if this rate of slowdown continued? What if 10 years later we'd only get 50% faster components instead of 2-3x faster for last decade?