> Or, they care but they lack the vocabulary to express what they care about.

That's speculative to the point of being conspiratorial.

> Are you honestly suggesting that the end user doesn't care about having to throw exponentially more money at stuffing RAM into their PC just to make the game all their friends are playing online function?

I'm extremely clearly not suggesting that. Don't make up things and pretend that other people said them. Engage honestly or not at all.