Connecting a 2023 study on storage costs to Moore's 1965 paper as "informational context" seems like a serious misunderstanding of realized PnL.
Moore's original work provided a predictive framework that allowed companies to plan and make money then, not look back decades later.
The value wasn't in some future data validating it, but in the immediate guidance it offered for design and investment at the time.
Retrospective data confirms a trend; it doesn't inform the initial insight that drove decisions when it mattered, like saying cheaper cloud storage today informed the design of an early hard drive.