I kinda get the segmentation part, at least in theory, but I don't buy that it's to "protect the poor gamers". Maybe I'm missing something, but the production cost is the same and it costs virtually nothing to not put on those limits. If anything, it almost certainly costs more to do this. So as far as I understand it, it's just charging more money for what essentially is the same thing. Especially when you consider the fact that they simultaneously changed the license of one of their cheaper GPU cards to prevent using it in data centers, so you'd have to switch to something more expensive. What's important to note is that they specifically didn't prevent the blockchain stuff.

I don't know, I just find producing something and then breaking it to be wasteful and borderline immoral.