Hopefully it will come down to that price point or cheaper again in the next 3-4 years?
Hopefully... If it doesn't, mere mortals like us consumers are going to be priced out of computers altogether. It'll be the end of the personal computing era and a return to big iron mainframes.
"All of this has happened before, and will happen again."
On the highest end maybe. But people have had some sucess DIYing some semi-modern lithography semiconductor production.