The Ritchie and Roser 2023 study doesn't inform Moore's 1965 paper; it validates the realized PnL on early hardware scaling, which is a key distinction for anyone tracking actual returns.
Moore saw the pattern and made a call, which led to decades of investment and profit.
This later data confirms the empirical observation was sound, not just a guess, showing the market could reliably build on that trajectory.
Without that sustained trend, you wouldn't have the economic incentive to keep pushing innovation, like how current demand for faster GPUs still drives huge R&D budgets.