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Older generations may not be. Millenials were big into the latest, greatest Android and Apple devices but trailed off eventually. I'm using a Samsung S9 as my main phone now cos I don't see a point in upgrading.
But Zoomers and Alphas have serious FOMO so they want the latest everything.
Same will happen again in a cycle. It's why governments and corpos want MORE babies being born. Kids are naive and see things like "ray tracing" as being uber-essential when really it's not and the tech is silly.
Of all of the bullshit tech out there I'm not sure why you chose ray tracing to pick on. I remember how cool stuff like pov-ray was in the 90s and how cool it would be to have good lighting in real time some day. It's kind of here now and it adds some flair to certain games. Far from essential but it's more interesting than the bullshit "innovation" that happens elsewhere these days. Phones are miserable for this.
The S9 was a solid choice and came with expandable storage, a headphone jack, and a notification LED - which I miss dearly... but by goodness is it slow as hell and stopped getting security patches.
Ray tracing might not be essential(it is cool though), however the tensor cores and ram are for certain things. — Naive Zoomer
(Technological advancement can be a net win for society— however people have been burned one too many times by the business types circle jerking it to short term profits and monetizing data collection)