And again, most gamers are running out of money to inject to scalpers + GPU makers and pay that 1000 dollar videocard for High-Mid / Lower-Upper range.
You would think so, but looking at the Steam HW Survey, you would doubt there is a "shortage" of Ampere cards, and instead it looks like card numbers flowing seem fairly normal, just the prices are high.
There are already more RTX 3070 cards in the survey than GTX 1080, or GTX 1080 Ti, two of the most praised and had seemed, most owned enthusiast cards. It has also passed every AMD card in the survey, including the RX 580 which sold for eons, and at a MUCH lower price than the RTX 3070.
I question if the problem is really on the supply side at this point, but instead scalping has become a fixed part of the supply chain.
Scalpers just gobble up the supply and sell them for huge profits.
Of course there wouldn't be a Scalping problem if people had a bit of collective willpower to just not support them, by buying from scalpers or shady merchants overcharging.