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Soundwave said:

It's academic anyway.

GPUs had an unsustainable boom the from about 2017-2021 especially because of people being locked inside their homes due to a once-in-100 years global pandemic and crypto miners buying up every new GPU and then reselling them to people for like half the price once the crypto mining/NFT market went kaput. 

You locked yourself inside since 2017 for a pandemic, which outbreak was declared in 2020?

Also the number of active Steam users HASN'T declined since the end of the pandemic; both concurrent users and concurrent in-game stats have set new records this year:

Your narrative that many people only bought new graphic cards because they were a bit cheaper after the crypto crash is very weak.