If you're dealing with something intensive then upgrading makes a lot of sense. If you've got large compilation times in your pipeline or if you're doing machine learning and need to throw loads of hardware at a problem I totally get that. I'm sure there are plenty of other situations that justify this too.

But if you're like me where most of that happens off on the build machines there is very little impact in upgrading your hardware.

A 50% improvement on compute workloads probably wouldn't be noticeable on the setup I run. Outside of compiling I don't think I push a single core much above 30%.

I guess it really comes down to what you're doing.