you are correct of course but i meant hardware lottery in the sense of dedicated silicon companies like Etched and MatX that have now emerged to make chips that only run transformers (not exactly true for matx but hey i am simplifying. would be cool if matx ran other arch's but its not a priority)
Given limits on clock speed, massive parallelism is always going to be the way to approach brain-like levels of parallel computation, so any model architecture aspiring to human level AGI needs to be able to take advantage of that.