Yeah, but the ways I want my devices to improve are more "cultural" than technological. I want easily-rooted phones with expandable storage, 3.5mm jacks, and screens that aren't five times taller than they are wide. I want laptops with non-chiclet keyboards and real mouse buttons instead of clickpads where I can't tell where the right click starts.

Well if 'improvements' stop, then you'll start getting those things.

Take Librem, their biggest problem is they don't have millions of $ to throw at the problem, so everything takes longer, so you end up with a flagship phone, of 5 years ago.

Now if the state of the art stays the same for 5 years, a 5 year dev cycle doesn't matter, so these smaller companies can compete.

Or take current notebooks for example. Thinner and lighter devices in the same form factors were the trend for years, but now that that's hit the point where thin compromises every other feature, there are designs being shown, especially in high-end gaming notebooks, that do more radical things: shift the keyboard downwards for thermal efficiency or to add a second screen; or a screen that detaches and elevates for better ergonomics.

There's a lot of room for electronics to become better physical objects, and for the software to mature with those objects. Moore's law also meant that the software got replaced with new software every four years or so.