Well, the GPUs are good enough that getting better doesn't really matter.
AS5 is professionally applied at Micro Center because Micro Center also doesn't carry a good selection of PSUs, and people are under the general assumption that AS5 is still the best there is. Including professionals, for those under that assumption. It's largely talented consumers, extremely knowledgeable professionals, and actual reviewers who realize the difference. That, and it's not the "average joe" (intelligent human being who works at a store) who chooses what products they use. It's the higher-ups, who are largely idiots who will make that intelligent person who actually knows a good product do what advertises better, or gets more sponsorship/bribe money for the company, without taking into account whether the product is extremely dangerous or not.
AS5 is professionally applied at Micro Center because Micro Center also doesn't carry a good selection of PSUs, and people are under the general assumption that AS5 is still the best there is. Including professionals, for those under that assumption. It's largely talented consumers, extremely knowledgeable professionals, and actual reviewers who realize the difference. That, and it's not the "average joe" (intelligent human being who works at a store) who chooses what products they use. It's the higher-ups, who are largely idiots who will make that intelligent person who actually knows a good product do what advertises better, or gets more sponsorship/bribe money for the company, without taking into account whether the product is extremely dangerous or not.
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body