It's all down to what people will pay, I generally hold off when you can't get that great of performance per dollar, I would be willing to pay around $800. I have plenty of games to play and the new Doom doesn't have RT but the smoke fire and effects in general are pretty impressive. Wolfenstein up next, maybe some Metro 2033 with max settings.$1000+ top gaming GPUs have been the around since 2013. I am pretty sure it’s solidly the norm now.
I've got a backlog of great games, maybe when the new Metro comes out and we see how it runs along with whatever else is out, I'll at least look and maybe they will sell all those 1080 TIs and ramp up 2080 TI fab.