Isn’t Solana more decentralized than Ethereum by design?

Sorry if Solana is quite disliked on this sub but I’m still ignorant about this topic. Right now I only hold Ethereum and recently discovered Solana.

I checked Solana’s validator requirements and they were a 12 cores CPU 2.8GHz (with some instruction support I didn’t understand), 128GB RAM and x4 Gen3 NVME SSD’s. I think these specs would cost around $2000. If we build a full PC with these specs I’d say it’s kinda hard to go higher than $5000.

Ethereum validators requirement is 32 ETH, which currently costs about $128k. Afaik Ethereum currently has more validators than Solana but isn’t it a lot harder to become an Ethereum validator now than Solana?

Also as time goes by, isn’t it going to be even harder to become on Ethereum validator as ETH price goes up? On the other hand, I assume Solana’s validator requirements will become easier with time as hardware becomes better at lower prices (maybe with DDR5 and AM5 chipset). I could be missing important things and if so I apologize.

Thanks for letting me post.