I've been running a ThreadRipper 1950X in my main box for the past 15 months or so and am generally extremely pleased with the results. However, my biggest takeaway from the experience of having 32 cores has been that an embarrassingly large amount of the software I use on a daily basis for productivity runs in a single thread. My expectation was that UI blocking would be rare- it isn't, particularly with Chrome, Firefox, and Slack. Jira in the browser is terrible- even with insane resources and 1Gbps bandwidth I regularly have to wait 10-15 seconds to be able to enter text.