Being able to buy a new CPU and put it in your old motherboard is better than having to buy both a new CPU and a new motherboard, even if you have to spend five

Being able to buy a new CPU and put it in your old motherboard is better than having to buy both a new CPU and a new motherboard, even if you have to spend five minutes googling which BIOS you need to flash. You seem to have missed the point because the original discussion claimed that it was somehow "consumer friendly" to require the purchase of a motherboard as well. You've somehow morphed that into, "if I'm buying both a CPU and motherboard". The whole point was that you don't need to buy a new motherboard.