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I would say it shows just as many kids are still coming to PC gaming. % cant increase forever.
Not sure about the price trend, Digitimes reports big cuts in orders for the Taiwanese chip suppliers, so there will be big pricing pressure to keep the fabs running.
Easier maybe and that really depends on what you're trying to do. Playing Elden Ring maybe easier. Playing Elden Ring and Diablo 2 probably not feasible on a console. Playing Halo Infinite, God of War, and Mario Odyssey on a console is virtually impossible. Also cost depends if you look at long term vs short term. How many people are still using a GTX 1060 from 2016 that can still play modern games? In the 6 years of owning a PS4 you would have spent hundreds just on the monthly subscription alone, and you still can't play older PS3/PS2/PS1 games. That 6 year old PC with the GTX 1060 can, and then some. The long term value in a PC is clearly better, and during the pandemic finding a PS5 at MSRP was just as impossible as finding a GPU at MSRP. Also didn't Sony increase the price of the PS5 in some areas around the world? What a time to stick to PC when PC hardware prices are falling fast.
You mean video editing, web browsing, printing, write documents, and you shouldn't look at porn on your phone but people still do it. Phones are good for things like looking at email, video conferencing, and watching videos. You can video edit on a phone, just terribly. You can web browse on a phone, which is somehow even more terrible, especially since websites like to remind you to download their app and give you the mobile page which sucks. You can write documents on a phone, just not in anyway that's fast. You can print documents, assuming your printer supports the feature and it works. You can watch porn, but the police officer behind you doesn't appreciate it. Basically using a phone is about as effective as using a Macbook, but at least the Macbook has a keyboard and will allow you to install a web browser that doesn't suck.
You're not wrong but these people can adapt or get left behind. PC is still superior.
That doesn't mean people aren't using a PC. If more people buy games on PC vs console, that just means people aren't upgrading. Unlike consoles, you can still use a fairly old PC and happily play modern games. GTX 970's and R9 390's are still capable of playing todays games and they're as old as a PS4. The desktop GPU market is bad because since 2016's crypto boom, the market hasn't had time to corrent GPU pricing. After the December 2017 crash of crypto, Nvidia sold barely faster RTX 2000 cards with useless Ray-Tracing, but then soon the pandemic hit and crypto exploded again and prices exploded. The GPU market hasn't been healthy for nearly a decade but that doesn't mean PC gaming died.