Can't see how this could comparison from 2012 could still be relevant with the advent of GaN chargers.
OK, fallen a lot (like 75% over the last 18 months) but the adaptor volume may not be enough to move the stats. And power adaptors are probably not part of the basket of goods.
But the main takeaway in terms of power adapters and immediate benefit to buyers is smaller bricks delivering more power at a time. The big chungus 60W bricks are now little chungus bricks.
If you look at the current state of the art for a "money is no object" manpack size VSAT/SNG terminal for geostationary use in a random very hard to reach area, such as might be owned by CNN or the BBC, the GaN Tx RF chain BUC/SSPA is remarkably small now compared to ten, twelve, fourteen years ago.
as your geostationary-transponder-kHz using SNG terminal gets smaller you are still forced into using really rudimentary modulation so the other calculation is the $ per month for a dedicated piece of transponder space lease, or the even higher costs for occasional-use transponder space.
Why would a change in the antenna radiation pattern limit the power spectral density, is it a regulatory limit?
In general the radiation pattern envelope (RPE) gets worse when viewed on an azimuth and elevation plot chart as the circular parabolic (or elliptical offset parabola) gets smaller.
Same general idea of why you might be able to successfully coordinate a fcc part 101 fdd band plan link terrestrially in a major urban area with a 120cm antenna with tighter RPE than same theoretical link if you submit it with cheaper antennas.