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If the hypothesis holds even in part, deceleration of Moore's Law could have drag effects on progress in many domains.

The death of Moore's Law has been predicted for a couple of decades. Sure, eventually we'll run into the limit, but I'd need strong evidence for such a claim.

(and yes, some related semiconductor laws no longer scale. Dennard scaling has been lost, etc)

Moore's law died several years ago. Mid '10s. The strong evidence? Pay more attention to consumer computer tech.

There are still ongoing improvements - but the pace has slowed, and those improvements are MORE expensive. This is how Moore's law died, not with an end to a trend, but a faltering curve.

Not necessarily. As it gets more difficult the next nodes and alternative materials will depend even more on advanced materials science and fabrication technology that'll also be available to adjacent fields.

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