They will stay until they are not free.
Even at 20 or 100 dollars they are free, they cost much more than that and investors want their billions backs.
@Aedius @ErikUden They wonโt still go away. Plenty of companies make enough money to still pay for them.
Also new techniques like ternary emulation on binary cpuโs will open up the lower end again.
But big expensive GPU cloud systems as an answer for everything are probably a dead end, that I agree with.
I hope it will remain where it is useful, but allowing ceo to connect to the production database and perform some cleanup in the table hopefully won't stay.