SMR is fine for most home hoarders. It only affects negatively those who need high write speeds, and those who need to reliably write TBs of data every day. As long as they still have 5y warranty, I’m good.

“He proved me wrong! I must deflect in order to steer the conversation in a different direction!”

15+ years of SSD technology and every optimistic fool has been proven wrong about “HDDs becoming obsolete”.

Your analogies are worthless, because you’re referencing changes in technology that happened over a span of a few years only. You can’t compare it to the SSD situation where it’s been 15+ years and still no sight of this technology surpassing old technology.