Nice to see an update

> Sigh. Have you _tried_ them?

I did, in fact. (Well, not me specifically, but I was in charge of writing a firmware for a device with one and did see the sausage being made.) It's not that costly. And you don't need one per drive.

> So you can easily get devices that simply split one x16 link into, say, four x4 links

Yeah, that's not a switch, that's a splitter.

> So yep, NVMe sucks. It's a bad standard for _drives_.

You still haven't managed to illustrate your point in any larger capacity than "a strong opinion".