Once again, you're just repeating the same BS about letting you enjoy what you want and ignoring the potential drawbacks. The mobile phone argument is also nonsensical because trends that rule that market are completely different from the console market. Also, mobile market is a cesspool so even providing it as an example to support your argument is ridiculous. What are you even suggesting, that it's okay if consoles become the same kind of consumerist wasteland as mobile market as long as you can satiate your thirst for buying new things?
Also, 8+ years? What are you even talking about? Current gen started in late 2020 in case you didn't know.
It's not bullshit, it's facts, independently of any opinions here I will still enjoy what I want (and you'll do the same). I'm contesting your perceived drawbacks, please address the point being made.
Last gen we had pro versions of the consoles and games kept coming out for the base versions. Even after the PS5 and Series consoles, we had games for several years being released on those old consoles, so what exactly are you complaining about?
As a counter argument, the vast majority of the games are also releasing on PC, where devs have to take into account orders of magnitude more architectural complexity. So unless your argument supports games not being released on PC, I'm not sure you have a leg to stand on to flag these downsides of the pro consoles.
This is pretty simple, not sure what you're not grasping.
A game releasing on PS5 and on PC creates much more complexity than taking the same game and allowing better raytracing/higher framerates/better shadows/higher res on a potential PS5 Pro, so your concerns are mute.
edit: almost forgot, ps4 released in nov 2013, ps4 in nov 2020 (that's already 7 years) and only now in 2023 we finally have some high profile games skipping the ps4, that's almost 10 years with the same old ass hardware which was already old when it came out.
for comparison, the ps1 released in 1995 in the west, with the ps2 releasing at the start of 2000, that's 5 years. So my point is these gens are extending much longer than they used to, so it completely justifies the pro models existing