If the memory price don't go down anymore, we could say that we are already priced out.

The memory prices put computers into the same category as cars. Expensive but still realistic.

It's these 200kUSD+ nodes with a dozen or more data center class GPUs that are killing the self-hosting dream. The cheapest nodes are is in the same price category as literal houses.

Either we get some competition in this space, or computing will go back to their roots as ivory tower big iron.