Before you start making plans to evict your current rig, I want to explain how the Steam Hardware Survey actually works. Rather than representing every player that uses the storefront, the monthly census instead uses a small percentage of participants who’ve opted in as a sample. It’s anything but representative of all 154 million active users, meaning the statistic above isn’t an absolute.
Does the author know how *survey sample sizes work?
Do I?
Is it because it’s opt in or opt out?
On the other hand, I suspect that some people with high-end PC specs might be more on the “privacy inclined” side of the spectrum, and might prefer not to share data on principle.
Though, if I were to guess, yours is probably the larger influence.