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I guess somehow Starfield was the point of no return to normal ever again when that game released back then Best Buy was doing some combo packages with a Ryzen 5 7600x / Gibabyte B650 Aorus Elite XT board plus the game for $289, AM5 was not selling well back then if I remember correct, so back...
I see it no different than a light pole setting on right of way land that was (only) given to your local government to access for water mains and roads, signs, how can a private company like Duke Power Energy use that right of way land (rent free) to house a light pole and then keep going up on...
I was off on my memory by a year as my first Firestrike scores with the Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MAG B550M MORTAR (MS-7C94) were run on August 12 2020
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/23276494
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X was released on November 5, 2020
I think it's a way to relaunch an old product line again with the correct bios support out of the box for the 5800x 3D not needing a flash to make it work.
It even makes my Sparkle Titan Intel Arc A770 16GB worth buying all over again and again at $329 as to just be laying in the box collecting dust, sold my RTX 3070 because of vram limit and bought the RX 9060 XT 16GB to kind of replace it.
I could not get my Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite XT to update the bios in the Q-Flash, as it never could see the file on the usb stick, I learned that the downloaded bios file for my Gigabyte board has to be renamed before it can be seen in Q-Flash, my MSI boards are not like this.
GIGABYTE Launches B550 X Series Socket AM4 Motherboards with Modern Connectivity
The GIGABYTE B550 X Series was purpose-engineered around one of the most celebrated processors in PC gaming: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, widely regarded as the best cost-to-performance processor on the market...
Other than AI for running FSR 4.1 they kept to gaming cards and should be priced as such without needing to chase Nvidia around like a dog chasing it's tail around in a circle called the AI bubble.
These budget cards are moving into the price range of what my RX 9060 XT 16GB two fan model cost me at $369 new, grad I didn't wait on buying one on release day.
I started real online gaming in 2002 with Metal of Honor : Ailled Assusalt = MOHAA , started learning to put a socket 478 Intel P4 together running the Nvidia Ge Force 4 4200Ti with 64mb of memory, it was wild times!