Guess we see things differently. I'm not saying deep dives don't count towards the enthusiast, but how many deep dives are published yearly versus regular reviews a few pages long with some benchmarks of a hardware device? Some of the companies I've worked for have offered deep dives into background ops, but those don't necessarily attract upper echelon enthusiasts. The yearly conferences they hold and sponsor do, however, satisfy those wants or needs.
My issue with the poster was his repeated claims which were corrected, given into, and then another claim was made without much basis. It would have been simple for him or her to link to last month's Steam hardware survey. While Steam is just a small segment in terms of online gaming and as an e-tailer themselves, they offer some interesting data for October 2019.
Right off the bat we get these results.
75% of users utilize NVidia graphics cards.
Of all graphics cards, 73.17% offer DX12 on W10
80.54% of users have Intel processors
Of all the processors reported, 51.21% use 4 cores (labeled as CPUs), less than 24% use other, which is for more than 4 cores.
You can see the breakdown data:
GFX card breakdown:
One could argue that a 1060 counts as enthusiast. I really don't. That's entry level decent graphics. You could argue on price, because of NVidia's sly shift towards a higher price that the 1060 is an enthusiast card now. I could also argue the opposite on the CPU front, that the 10980XE that was just released doesn't qualify for HEDT based on price because Intel slashed 50% over a generational shift which is really a 2 year old processor with boosted clocks, and that it should only be compared with the 3950X because of the pricing bracket.
The above is an argument people have been using, not necessarily on AT, over the past week. The reality is if Intel slashed another $800 off, are we supposed to compare it to a sub $200 processor? Or compare it for what it is? You wouldn't compare the 2080ti to the rumored 5500 XT, now, would you? No.