When compiling or video encoding I'll take a current processor. For everything else, not so much.

For speed of UI response, loading times, cursor and input latency we're at best no further forward. Quite often we're in an objectively worse situation. With a tiny few exceptions, no one cares about code or data sizes any more and that is reflected in what's delivered.

That's quite apart from the rise of web apps and the slowness that necessarily introduces.