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The Ryzen R7 5800X3D is 4 years old.
The Ryzen R7 1800X was the first Ryzen released in March 2017.
So even the original Ryzen is only 9 years and 2 months old.
Yes in the 90's developments were faster for many reasons, mostly that the newer production processes were way cheaper, so you could continue to make new chips that were both faster and cheaper to make.
But Ryzen did put some life back into the PC again, after a decade of Intel idling along, because they were a monopoly on the PC.
While smartphones from 2007 to 2016 went from single core 32 bit, to deca core 64 bit. The desktop CPU went from 2 core to 4 core!! And Ryzen was introduced in 2017 with 8 cores, and it took Intel years to just get to 6 cores for a standard desktop CPU.
Also at the introduction of Ryzen it was an 8 core desktop CPU at $500, that could compete with an Intel workstation CPU that cost $1800,-
I think that while your post is technically true, it lacks perspective of what Ryzen did for the desktop.