Where is the industry going? What do you think?

As an interested observer of the industry I read claims of imminent convergence of routing and switching like https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/23/the-switch-router-war-is-over-and-hyperscalers-won/ and can't fail to notice the recent rise of bare-metal switches and open source network operating systems vs proprietary vendors -- but obviously lack the experience of professionals working in such environments to understand what is really going on.

Where do you think the industry is moving to in the next years? As far as a whole decade? What of this will trickle down to lower end environments, if at all?