What do you mean “oh well”??? It SLAYS!
98.8% of the performance of a 9960x at about 30% of the cost!..
110% the performance of the 9940x at about 37% of the cost!..
33% more performance than the 9900k at a 3% premium.
Fan included.
Those of us with existing AM4 boards can update the bios and plop the CPU in, no need for a new mobo because of a new socket (cough; intel). And if we do decide to move up to a new mobo we get PCIe 4.0 and Thunderbolt.
How is this not a huge win???