Prophet Moore predicted the future and now engineers start breaking the law?
Isn't it the other way around that Moore made an observation about some effect that arose naturally? The formula was then called Moores law and its extrapolation had great predictive power for a long time.
Similar effects occur all through industries when you start scaling things up. Quality will go up and cost per unit will go down. Often following a simple mathematical formula which describes the learning curve.
In many technologies there is something called maturity where the straight line in the diagram starts to bend and approaches a technical limit. Markets overcome this a few times by changing the technological approach of solving a problem to an approach that has a better limit. This makes the general trend continue for decades... until the point where the next technology is so expensive that noone can afford it anymore.
Thus far Silicon has won every round and chip manufacturing plants cost many billions of dollars.