People years ago said the cards used for crypto mining took too much power and cooling for gamers, but later we got gaming cards that take pretty much the same power and cooling as some of them.
I hope you're right and that doesn't happen this time. It's gone too far already.
You might also be right that they just see the "AI race" as more of a sprint than a marathon, so they don't care if they can liquidate parts for money back later.