I'm confused. Are we mad at hardware research and development as a concept now or is what's left of the tech press just stuck in permanent snark mode and just can't physically write any other way?

I mean, not every new standard is meant for home use primarily out of the gate and PCIe devices are backwards compatible with older standards, so... yay, people who need to build a very fast NAS will be able to chuck more, faster drives in there now. Good for them.