It was obvious from the beginning when 1800X launched that these chip have a lot of potential, also considering their price. The main takeaway is that they are in the near vicinity of Intel, sometimes better, sometimes slower, but always good enough to not notice a real difference. We saw how much difference a few game optimizations done by developers can do with Ryzen chips so I would bet you that all the outlier games in which R5 1600 didn't do so well, are just not optimized/aware of Ryzen internal architecture. In time, with the push of compiler optimizations, hopefully some new consoles that have Ryzen CPUs on them and with great execution on AMD's part (they need to execute like this in the coming years, not to screw up Ryzen 2/3 or whatever they do) we will see that Intel advantage is games is just a result of many years of small optimizations...
Still, I wouldn't pay double the money on a CPU that is almost on par, consumes more power just for the badge. AMD knows how to make chips, they just were unfortunate enough to bet on a wrong design in late 2000s with Bulldozer and that is it.
I would encourage everyone to overcome their fears and buy AMD, because look at how fast things have changed in the past months with Intel when AMD finally release a competitive product. We got much more with the same money and that is a big win for all consumers. Also, appreciate the fact that AMD priced these babies reasonably, even though they knew they could push higher with the price. So, please support AMD.