Meanwhile, priests like Intel with Itanium, Microsoft with WinRT, FOSS nerds, or AMD with GPUs will continue failing because most people ain't got no time to be preached to about how they achieve something.
From a consumer perspective, I agree. From a datacenter, edge and industrial application perspective though, I think those crowds are content funding an effective monopoly. Hell, even after CUDA gets dethroned for AI, it wouldn't surprise me if the demand continued for supporting older CUDA codebases. AI is just one facet of HPC application.
We'll see where things go in the long-run, but unless someone resurrects OpenCL it feels unlikely that we'll be digging CUDA's grave anytime soon. In the world where GPGPU libraries are splintered and proprietary, the largest stack is king.
And there wasn't a parts shortage (modulo some cryptocurrency mining, but that impacted both GPU vendors)
And ML models weren't so large as to make 8GB of vram sound meagre.
And there weren't a bunch of venture capitalists throwing money at the work, because the state of the art models were doing uninspiring things. Like trying to tag your holiday photos, but doing it wrong because they couldn't tell a bicycle helmet and a bicycle apart.
The SW story has been bad for a long time, but it is perhaps right now better than you think