Yea it's very hard to recommend upgrading to anything other than 5800X3D. As a side note, that article is very old cause Bof posted an article that said Ryzen 7000 sold twice as much as Alder Lake during launch but people forget there were a ton of shortages during Alder Lake launch not to mention very expensive DDR5. These days, DDR5 is still more expensive than DDR4 but not as expensive anymore. The main hump comes from the fact that most people have a DDR4 already and would need to buy DDR5.
One thing I will note is after chatting with one of my friends who is thinking to upgrade from his Skylake to Raptor Lake that some of the deals on the Z690 is pretty tempting.
As an example, the Z690 Aorus Elite which comes with a lot of goodies including PCI-E Gen 5 for GPU is on a pretty big discount right now going all the way down to $199 USD:
As he doesn't upgrade very often, his plan was to get either Ryzen 7000 or Raptor Lake and hunker down for a long time. The reason he's not going Ryzen 7000 is because the budget tier B650 starts at $189 and it comes with entry level components and PCI-E Gen 4 for GPU. On top of that, 7700X is only 8 cores 16 threads. So his plan is to get a Z690 that's on sale with PCI-E Gen 5 for GPU along with 13700k which comes with 8P cores 16 threads + 8E cores (16 cores in total). He was comparing that to Ryzen and the Ryzen equivalent which is the X670 Aorus Elite starts at $289 and doesn't even include PCI-E Gen 5 for GPU.
So all that is to say depending on your use case, there's still a lot of options even for someone that's budget minded. 5800X3D + AM4 is the best bang per buck choice followed by Raptor Lake + Z690 that's on sale and then Ryzen 7000 + B650E whenever that comes out.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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