Giroro
Splendid
I agree people shouldn't be buying a GT730 at any price. But that's not because it's an entry level GPU, it's because it's an entry level GPU from 9 years ago. It's hypothetical replacement, the GT 1030, largely never existed when it needed to, and is still based on a 7 year old architecture.Immensely so, we see it in the desktop product stack already. GT1030 or RX550 being the lowest relatively current GPUs you can still get new. With HD730 and Vega / RDNA based integrated graphics, not much call for anything more.
People complain that the entry level desktop gaming GPUs are too expensive, but that is because if they made cheaper ones, they would then be seen as too weak to justify the costs. That has always been the case. Just more so now.
$90 for a 2GB GT1030, or $90 for the 4GB RX550. People shouldn't be buying GT730 for $60 (Actually is an r7-240 for $35 right now, neat)
Or $95 for a 3200G.
$121 for a 5600G
If AMD or Nvidia wanted to put a severely cut down version of their current or last-gen architecture into a 50W-75W GPU for ~$75 (preferably with good video encoders because hobby editing/streaming is huge), it would definitely be a worthwhile upgrade. It wouldn't be great at gaming, but still better than integrated. More importantly, is the added feature of being able to drive multiple 4k monitors, when a lot of motherboards only have 1 video output.
Plus, think about all those processors which have no integrated graphics whatsoever, or older Intel CPUs that still work fine, but have a junk iGPU.
The RX 6400 could have been good card for this market, but it came out at the wrong time, which led it to having the wrong price. Pretty soon it should drop below $100 where it belongs. Intel's A310 is even more promising for this market, if it ever gets real availability.