This all applies to cryptocurrency miners too.

In fact, it might be even more relevant there, because crypto miners compete so hard on electric bill costs, they definitely have to plan on liquidating equipment when it gets old enough, even if it still works.

If this was all real business and not just the authorities controlling people, Nvidia would have competition offering similar cards with video outputs for a few cents more because they make more business sense. But instead, it would be super expensive to add video outputs to specialized cards, because it would “cannibalize sales” for graphics cards later.