Fairly certain that model sizes and computational requirements will grow as the price for LLM compute drops.
have you seen the open source LLM space? people fulfill all niches and there are active communities at every range of RAM and all are looking for the most capable in their respective range
a lot of innovation occurring
Maybe there's a conversation to be had about how much is enough... Unless something beyond my imagination happened, I would be happy enough with Opus 4.5 levels of productivity