Casey Muratori started a whole educational webseries about this - the fact that hardware is getting faster and faster but the user experience seems to be staying the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY&list=PLEMXAbCVnm...

He also has a "performance-aware programming" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ0MF1q_LUE&list=PLEMXAbCVnm...