I realize now that these skylakes are not really about enthusiasts.

Think about what will make your parent's computer feel more powerful. A more fluid GUI, higher resolution in windows, a higher framerate in windows and of course peripherals going faster. Skylake has much better onboard graphics (which take up half the die) and a lot more IO for USB 3.1, SSD storage and display port from integrated graphics.

If Intel wanted to, they could double the cores by taking the integrated graphics out. They could double the peak flops again by including the 512bit SIMD instructions. They've already demonstrated they can do it.

They know their real money making market and it isn't anyone here.