Sure, but we're talking a $10, or ~5%, difference. Either these bin identically (since Intel is charging an ~identical amount for them), or one of these will be

Sure, but we're talking a $10, or ~5%, difference. Either these bin identically (since Intel is charging an ~identical amount for them), or one of these will be permanently out of stock making it functionally not exist in the stack anyway. The actual profit difference here will be even less as simply having that extra sku costs overhead. So what practically changes if the 11500T just didn't exist? i7-11700T vs. i7-11900T would be silicon lottery in play, that's $323 vs. $439 for a +100mhz clock bump. Although then there's the question of "what is this 35w desktop CPU market that will pay for a $439 CPU?"