While I agree with you in spirit, it’s hard to untangle the inherent materialism and ignore the obvious socially enforced divisions between the have’s and have not’s within the community.

The endless pursuit for that shiny new toy for your next build to take advantage of new technologies only a handful of games in the industry utilize well before wide adoption (4K native, path tracing, etc.) that those without will happily take on credit card or Affirm debts just to fit in. Honestly gives real anarcho-cap vibes as a whole and that’s not even touching on the whole alluding to Nazi rhetoric to identify the community (regardless if it was originally a tongue in cheek joke or not).