You drop $2000 on an RTX 5090 with ray tracing that could render the entire Matrix in real-time, meticulously plan your gaming library for the next half-decade like you're architecting a microservices infrastructure, and then... you spend the next 6 months tweaking config files for Skyrim. Again. The hardware is crying in the corner running at 2% utilization while you're debugging why Thomas the Tank Engine dragons aren't loading properly. That GPU could be mining crypto, training neural networks, or rendering Pixar movies, but instead it's making sure your 2011 game has the perfect ENB preset. Classic developer move: invest in bleeding-edge tech, use it for legacy system maintenance.