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I'm not saying that the GPU won't still be the limitation at high resolutions in the future. Let me put it a different way and throw my 5820k under the bus again. If you could find it on one of these charts, it would be way down towards the bottom. It would also be a significant chunk down towards the bottom in a 1440p or 4k test today because it would bottleneck a 3080. if you looked at the charts when it was new, it was way towards the top of a 720p test, but would have been neck and neck with many others at 1440p, which would have been a pointless test back then if just looking for the best gaming CPU for that year-alone. Over the last 6 years, it has been moved down and even gets beat handily at 1440p by many CPUs because it has become the bottleneck. I'm sure several years from now, the 11900k, 5900x, 10900k, etc. will be bottlenecks, even at some higher resolutions, but picking those over say a 10600k or 9900k today will minimize that effect as much as possible even though right now the difference isn't that great at high resolutions because they don't yet create much of a bottleneck at high resolutions. Newer games are using even more CPU power than ever before, so a game like CP2077 would just destroy my 5820k. the 11900k on the other hand? one of the best you can get (see above). So games that head in that direction...that's what I can pick a CPU today based on hoping for some future-proofing.
 
Also, I would never try to convince someone that does heavy MC-workloads (i.e. professional work) on their CPU to buy an 11900k. I'd tell them to figure out how to get a 5950X. That said, buying a 5950X just for gaming is also silly and a bit of a waste of a 5950X lol. I pretty much just use my PC for gaming. That is its primary function. So for me, 11900k makes just as much sense (and in many cases, even more sense) than a 5950X. Also, I paid $539 for it...at my first attempt to buy it, so that's quite a bit cheaper and more of a tangible product than catching a magic $800 drop on amd.com or paying over $1000 on Amazon (or even $700 for a 5900x because the $550 drops on amd.com almost never happen). 
 
So, back to gaming: will the GPU be more important at high resolutions in the future? Yes, absolutely. Will the CPU matter and still have a chance to create bottlenecks at high resolutions in the future if I'm using an old CPU? Yes, absolutely. If I kept my 5820k and bought a 3080, I wouldn't see anywhere near the same improvement as I will with the 11900k (or 5900x, or 10900k), even at 1440p. I don't upgrade my CPU every year...or two years...or even 3 years most times. So looking at the CPU bottleneck is important to me.