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Chazore said:

Even if those two GPU's from Nvidia are going to be the 4070/4060Ti, it still means both are going to be received less warmly, primarily because we've seen what the 4070Ti is priced at, and the fact it is just lesser and rather a meh-worthy card.

I'm fully expecting those other two cards to do less and rely more heavily on DLSS 3 to pump up their stats, which means the cards are getting worse and now have to rely more on a band-aid to look semi decent, and both will still likely cost 500+

The 4070Ti isn't a bad card "per se". If you look at the performance it brings, it offers a 30% improvement over the 3070Ti:

(graph taken from TechPowerUp's review of the ASUS 4070Ti TUF card)

If you look at previous gens (3070Ti FE review, 2070 SUPER FE), you can see that a 30% increase is the average improvement from an xx70Ti gen to the next one, so in this regard, the 4070Ti performs as expected.

The problem is, obviously, the price. They've gone from $600 (official Nvidia price, it's the value they gave to the card) to $800, a 33% increase. So, just like with the 4080 vs 3080, Nvidia is charging $10 more for every 1% performance increase, killing its value.

Chazore said:

Also what's with NVME's getting chunkier over time?, between the GPU's and NVME's, it feels like we're regressing in the compact dept of tech (I've seen this with phones over the past decade getting bigger, wider and chunkier in general).

Heat. The push for faster drives pushes the temps of the controller and NAND chips higher, requiring more cooling with every gen update. All Gen4 drives need heatsinks, with some controllers running cooler and the simple heatsink of the motherboard was ok, while others run far hotterand needed beefier ones.With Gen5 it's worse, and all drives will need bigger coolers, and some even with fans.