Oh no! We can't live without overengineered pieces of silicon made via processes more complex than anything in history, with enormous computing power being used to display our porn and cat pics. We need more performance! And we need even more complex CPUs.
Everyone is different. I could live with things from year 2005. Except they were expensive and not everyone had them. I would want people to have necessities and simple, sturdy, cheap, weak tech to fulfill their needs and nothing more. Not lack some things and have far too powerful tools for other things.
Benefits - ape gets a grenade. Risks - ape doesn't care about risks, because it throws the grenade far enough.