I did say base cards first and FE. And FE cards have been around longer then everyone's acting almost 10 years ago they sold a 780 FE. They started pushing them harder over the last 3 gens / 6 years.

They typically offer the best deals you'll ever get for CPU and MB. And most items trade blows with everywhere else depending who's got it on sale this week. Though microcenter limits the good deals to in person typically only which does suck and id knock them down a tad for that but there not anywhere near as bad as you're saying.

Typically it's every 2 years for a generation

I mean that's all speculation. Time will tell. If so the 4080 won't sell well. Though it seems like Nvidia priced the 4080 to sell more 4090s honestly so idk if they care.

Top end AIB cards never made any sense performance to price. The base versions and FE always were way better if you cared about the value.

Most of the extras don't really make the card any where near faster % wise for the % increase. Lower temps , better looking, form factor type stuff is nice but meh.

That's like every tech company model