Exactly! It's just like back in the day you would see a stack of cd/dvd's for photo and then one for data... It's the same CD/dvd but Marketing just got two sales from people that don't know better.
IMHO it stemmed from cassette era, having two common grades that split into kinda fake premium(you could magically magnetize any ferro type actually before write, just like preformatting drive for better analog sensitivity, some devices had dedicated heads for that) cobalt and chrome versions and their mix types being the unicorns.
Makers wanted to further spin the same logic IMHO as CD's were the successors. At least tried... They could have have marketed CD's withstanding my first Ricoh 2x writer without melting
But hey... really slapping silly looking heatsinks on devices that utterly does not need it, as usually those places have no airflow anyways is a marketing trend that should be scolded as hard we can.
A thing that could be needed is a simple graphene sheet to even out and prevent hotspots, and that is it, I would agree with it. Most laptops use it and it works totally fine like that for years already... also being besides scorching components around 90C... and nobody bats an eye about it, hey some even can put 3 NVME drives besides in a laptop...
Hey where are heatsinks for my poor overheating laptop? Really mates?
