> the devs are on new flagship workstation-class devices, and the users on little edge devices
This will continue to be true, I think. The vast majority of people buying threadripper machines at threadripper prices are those with serious work to do on them, like compiling huge codebases, hosting piles of VMs, running simulations, or doing certain creative work. I doubt anyone developing 'serious' software that their customers buy 96 core machines to run wouldn't also run similarly powerful machines.
There are some tech fetishists who will buy this premium hardware and underutilize it, but not too many.
This will continue to be true, I think. The vast majority of people buying threadripper machines at threadripper prices are those with serious work to do on them, like compiling huge codebases, hosting piles of VMs, running simulations, or doing certain creative work. I doubt anyone developing 'serious' software that their customers buy 96 core machines to run wouldn't also run similarly powerful machines.
There are some tech fetishists who will buy this premium hardware and underutilize it, but not too many.