This is unfortunate that it would push them in that direction, but not for the reasons you speak of.

Before the PS4/WiiU era (I'm not including XBox for reasons that will be obvious), they actually tried to create hardware that was "ground breaking" and/or "revolutionary" (to some extent of those words).

The PS3 had the "Cell Processor" and the Wii was loosely based on a PPC architecture.

The PS4 and WiiU were essentially x86 AMD CPU's.

The PS5, Switch 1/2 and every XBox are basically just desktop COTS hardware slightly modified for power consumption to be "consoles".

Are you surprised that 10,000,000 machine hours compressed into a quantized token can "reverse" a very well known and documented architecture?

I'm not.

And that, in my humble opinion, is the unfortunate part.