It’s really that hard if you care about not getting hacked with 1days all the time.

Eh, all the time = maybe once a year. Still no Spectre/Meltdown exploits in the wild. Most Windows XP users don't even know about Reddit and shit.

Neither spectre nor meltdown were very exciting vulnerabllities. Technically interesting, but too hard to usefully exploit in the browser.

LPE? Those are a dime in a dozen.

Nobody cares about home users, it’s businesses which this hurts.

That's interesting, because I clearly remember it being "the end of modern processors as we know it".

But yeah, media is garbage and people will overhype anything.