We’ll have to wait ~ 2 years since the next round of AMD cards are rumoured to be midrange cards. The Steves are right that if A.I is still as profitable for both AMD and Nvidia by then, expect prices to go up for any flagship. It wouldn’t make any business sense not to.
Unfortunately I don’t think AMD (& Nvidia) care about GPU gaming market share when they’ll be selling all the MI accelerators they can make using the same wafers at much higher profit margins.
As consumers, we’re going to have to get used to getting mediocre offerings at inflated prices until the AI hype dies down or they find a way to use some of the other manufacturing nodes to make competitive GPUs.
I like what the Arc division has been doing lately, especially with Linux support. I am looking forward to what battlemage can bring to the table.