It's more or less the same boat for me. I don't care much for AAA;s that much. I'm going to be playing the new WoW expansion, but that game is more CPU based than GPU, and already old enough in the tooth (thank god for the studio's art dept though).

Raytracing is also become another barrier of entry for me, that games designed with it in mind, that turning it off makes the game look ugly as hell (looking at you Dying Light 2), means I won't be touching those games for years to come, until I get a card that can really handle RT). 

"my backlog is a prison"

Game Nexus did a lot of testing on 12VHPWR Failures and found foreign object debris and user error is the most common causes. They concluded that error are actually very rare and they worried that all the fear around it have caused people to keep checking there cables which is increasing risk of something happen because constantly pluging in and unplugging to check for burn increasing risk of something going wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2px7ofKhQ&ab_channel=GamersNexus

In order to get the cable to melt, user needs to leave 4-4.5 mm of the connector unsocketed assuming there were no debris that caused the cables to melt. That's such a big gap lol. Overall 0.05%-0.1% failure rate according to board partners.

I like how GN calls out Igors lab and others in a nice way due to their shitty miss information spreading ever since this issue started happening. I said many times in the past that if the you can't replicate the problem based on the theory, then it's just a theory and not the cause. GN finally as a theory that is repeatable and can cause the melting of the connectors. I am glad I didn't follow suit and continuously unplug and check my adapter because based on that testing, it absolutely could have made a perfectly fine adapter melt if I didn't insert it back in properly or accidentally bent the connector pins.

Yeah, for example... I still have yet to complete Zeus: Master of Olympus! (I have completed a few campaigns though.)

I couldn't agree more, and I've been doing that for a long time now.

I think that, besides the free games from the Epic Store, the newest game I have is Ace Combat 7, from 2019. And it's not just for the money you save buying them later with big discounts, it also helps avoiding bugs and glitches that plague a lot of new releases that only get fixed after a few weeks or even months.

I totally agree and this whole affair been a good reminder to me.  I originally believed Igors reporting as I historically consider them one of the better reporter on tech issues and there explanations seem plausible and fell into my own bias of a greedy company cheeping out on a adapter construction to save a few penny seem not surprising.

It was not till a day later when I watch a Actually Hardcore Overclocking youtube video on the topic to realize we really still have no clue what the real issue is yet. 

Now a few weeks after that we finally have some reproduceable results of what causing the issue thanks to GN.  

What the cuck...

Why would anyone buy this? That costs as much as a 4090...

Because there are people out there with more money than brains. That's why.

And you made me check the prices over here and, while most are around the 1.600-1.700 € mark, I've seen a couple that cost more than 2.000 €, putting ithem at the same level as 4090s.