Good point. The two big open questions are: (1) Are AMD's gaming performance claims fair and representative? (2) How overclockable is the Ryzen 3000 series?
If matching or beating i9-9900K only requires toggling an overclocking setting in BIOS or the Ryzen Master utility, then it will be hard for Intel's status as champion not to be in dispute — especially if i9-9900K has higher power use and/or cost. For i9-9900K to really stretch its legs, it has to go well beyond its rated TDP, as thoroughly explored by reviewers, and discussed elsewhere on this forum.
Actually the 'locked 95W' 9900K doesn't suffer nearly as badly in gaming as it does in heavily threaded apps, which makes sense. Basically no game can exhaust a 9900K thread wise, so it's never truly running at 100% load when gaming.