Well, it appears that the hardware manufacturers don't see it that way:
https://www.coindesk.com/asus-debuts-specialized-motherboard-for-cryptocurrency-miners/
From the article:
The B250 Mining Expert motherboard itself boasts a total of 19 PCI-Express expansion slots, compared to the 12, eight or six slots featured on competitors' products.
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The 19 expansion slots are split into three groups, each containing 24 dedicated pins. This allows the mining rig to be connected to three power supply units at once, stabilizing the rig for multi-GPU usage. The board also boasts a variety of features likely to appeal to miners, such as live visual statistics.
Sadly for us, this may mean that elevated GPU prices are the "new normal".