I'm talking small and medium businesses, who have productive gains using AI, where a 3k€ PC is common. We have many.
Mind you, some local models run on 16GB of RAM, with some headroom to do development work.
I'd have to spend what, 5-10k today to run flash models? It can't be justified as long as I have Luna on 20$ sub. I'd have to be doing so much heavy unsupervised work for the economy to make sense.
The number of people who have 192GB RAM at their disposal is minuscule because there was no reason to have that much just recently unless: 1. You're a professional in some compute heavy field AND 2. You don't use a cloud or in-house enterprise infrastructure
500€ for a production tool seems fairly innocuous. We're not in the 10k€+ workstation territory here. At least we were not.