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Technology advancements like this are going to keep on marching along no matter the price of the end good. There is massive demand for better and better silicone and that doesn't look like it's going to change pretty much ever, at least not in our lifetimes.
Also, every time you see these companies announcing new chips with smaller transistors, that means they built an entire new fab to produce these chips. The old fabs generally still stay operating if there is demand, so this does in fact increase capacity overall
There are limits tho, there's a general trend of diminishing returns. Moore's law is no longer applicable.
My point is that we want more innovation is production capacity, these new innovations are mostly for making money. What the company wants is to say "look at our new shiny thing its 10% better than previous gen but it will cost you 50% more than last gen, also last gen is deprecated".
All of this is motivated by the drive to make more money for the producers, not to help the enduser.