Moore’s Law has been effectively dead for a while but I would never have predicted the average desktop and laptop CPU performing worse in 2025 than 2024.

The current hypothesis is people are buying cheaper laptops with worse CPUs to save money.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/passmark-sees-the-first-yearly-drop-in-average-cpu-performance-in-its-20-years-of-benchmark-results