I feel like there's a good point made by the Discourse CEO about Qualcomm (and competitors) - the product decision to segment their CPU line by drastic differences in single-threaded CPU perf is a highly anti-consumer one.
In contrast AMD and Intel use the same (or sameish) CPU arch in all of their lineup in a given generation, the absolute cheapest laptop I could find used a Pentium 6805, which still has a GB6 score of well over 1000, sold in a laptop that's cheaper than most budget smartphones.
In contrast, Qualcomm and Mediatek will sell you SoCs that don't even have half of that performance as a latest-gen 'midrange' part.
In contrast AMD and Intel use the same (or sameish) CPU arch in all of their lineup in a given generation, the absolute cheapest laptop I could find used a Pentium 6805, which still has a GB6 score of well over 1000, sold in a laptop that's cheaper than most budget smartphones.
In contrast, Qualcomm and Mediatek will sell you SoCs that don't even have half of that performance as a latest-gen 'midrange' part.