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I'm pretty convinced this is the play. Drive up DIY PC parts then promote thin cloud clients as a way to have a PC without paying the crazy prices that they set. It's a lot easier to tell you "it's safer for the children" and pillage every file, action, and keystroke for AI training and data brokerage. Your owned PC is a black box for them and it's their wet dream to own it for you... As a subscription of course.
While it might actually end up going that way, I don't think that's a deliberate play. The tech bros and C-suite execs tend to be sociopathic dumbasses. I think they're legitimately just loading themselves up with tons of debt just to buy hardware to capture market share thinking that things could never collapsed on them.