AMD's high-end X3D-series processors still aren't a thing that most people need to spend extra money on—under all but a handful of circumstances, your GPU will be the limiting factor when you're running games
I wish reviewers wouldn't keep repeating this. There are tons of strategy, business sim, city-builder games that can easily bring even modern CPU to their knees.
Case in Point: The Final Earth 2, allows you to remove the 15K population limit. At around 20K population, my 5800X is clearly unable to handle the load. And 20K is honestly not that much considering the scope and functions of the game.