We spent years with quad core i7 processors being the norm, with higher core count processors being locked to Intels HEDT platform. When Ryzen came out all of a sudden the i7 8700k was able to be a 6 core processor instead of a 4 core. Then it wasn’t until Alder lake released in November of last year that we finally got desktop processors that weren’t on 14nm+++ (or however many + it was at). That’s not including the fact that you could overclock all the initial Ryzen processors, while Intel locked you to specials skus of CPU and motherboard