With this CPu chiplet design they couldn't have 2 8 core packages and a GPU on a single die. For the vast majority of professional use cases 8 core / 16 thread

With this CPu chiplet design they couldn't have 2 8 core packages and a GPU on a single die. For the vast majority of professional use cases 8 core / 16 thread running at 4.5+ boost is going to be way enough for a while. AMD sure has spoiled the market in just two years on commoditizing 8 core desktop chips because in 2016 the conversation would be about what flavor of $400+ quadcore or $800+ sextacore from Intel you were going to get.