Intel still did not react properly to their new situation of being objectively worse than AMD. They lowered the prices a bit, that's all. Still trying to segmen

Intel still did not react properly to their new situation of being objectively worse than AMD. They lowered the prices a bit, that's all. Still trying to segment the market with locked processors, even introducing more limits on ram overclocking, and still refusing to honor warranty when enabling XMP. That's not a company that wants to compete, so I wouldn't expect big moves with regards to connectivity. Locked processors shouldn't be a thing anymore, ECC should be supported, motherboard chipset segmentation stopped, and it would be nice if the new processors wouldn't be set to 300W energy usage. With the right price Intel's processors would have a chance then even though they are slower. But like this - who would want to buy this? You are right to be flabbergasted, they should do things like integrated thunderbolt support to better the situation.