Doesn’t “need” to? What does that even mean?

If the manufacturer had all the power in the relationship, the product would cost even more.

And if the us government were lending someone money to buy Nvidia, that may be relevant.

Why doesn’t a 4090 cost $1,000,000?

Even assuming it does, it won’t be for a good while before it comes through to GPU prices.

Dumb thermostats last for multiple decades.

Nobody thinks they’re incapable of working this out; we think theyre deliberately advertising something dumb that lay people won’t necessarily understand is dumb. Replying that they have smart engineers is stupid because no-one denied it - we just don’t think they used those engineers to come up with the idea.