What about gaming? People have been waiting to be able to buy affordable GPUs for a while now.
Margins on pre-builds have been shrinking to almost nothing, I build my own PCs because I see it as a hobby, but I could hardly recommend it nowadays to someone who's looking for a machine, not a new hobby.
You say it like people didn't buy GPUs before crypto. What do you think happened to all those GPUs AMD and nVidia have made every year for the past decade or so?