The 3080Ti is in the article, it's in the summary table, in the end, with the correct position. If someone wants to read, will get the message.
I'm glad you are lucky, for both your past and presend GPU (I still hold my 1070 Jetstream, btw - it's enough for my needs, so I cherish it). Please understand though: this is not a product analysis, it is a snapshot in time, with recommendations. It doesn't matter how prices were 2 years ago (or that you could get an MSRP product - good for you, congrats): this is how things are NOW. Period. (sorry, I hate to use that, but in this case there are simply no further arguments to be made. The market is what it is). So recommendations MUST be made based on current prices (and Steve apologises basically through the entrie article for this).
As for AMD making terrible products...I got that you have bad experience, so if you use that statment with the "in my experience" moniker, that's fine. Making it as a bland statement, it is not: you can find sad examples for literally every PC part and every brand out there.
The 3080Ti is not talked about in-depth at all. They just say it's $500 more than the 6900XT. This article is 75% about prices and 25% about performance. The article never talks about the 3080Ti's performance. That was the purpose of my comment - the article leaves out A LOT of valuable information when it comes to these products and makes arguments nonstop about why you should buy AMD. I'm pretty sure the only reason the author listed to buy NVidia was if you liked better ray tracing and/or the DLSS feature (completely ignoring other features like DLDSR that allow my 1440p monitor to produce an image that resembles 4K with a 2% performance cost).
They don't talk about why NVidia even exists... If I was new to graphics cards and I saw all of these arguments made in favor of AMD, I would be so confused as to why people are keeping these expensive NVidia cards around.
And, other than mining, these cards are around people NVidia has a reputation for making a very good product.
Have you ever taken apart a GPU or watched videos taking apart an AMD GPU versus an NVidia GPU? The AMD GPU literally looks like it was put together as fast as possible with no effort at all because they just want that profit. NVidia is obviously guilty of wanting a massive profit, as well. But, if you take apart their products and see how they're built...it's like apples and oranges.
NVidia objectively makes a better product. This is not solely based on my life experience. It has been documented on tech forums, taught by college professors for those who wish to get in the field of making computer technology, and if you're looking to be lazy you can watch for yourself on various YouTube videos.
AMD puts the bare minimum in their products so that they can function and of you're lucky, you will get 40% of the life span that an NVidia product has. I'm not saying everything NVidia produces is perfect - there will always be defective products no matter where you look.
I'm saying, overall, if you buy AMD, it should be for one of two reasons: 1.) You can't afford a more stable, reliable GPU or 2.) You plan on replacing your GPU as soon as the next generation comes out and even then you're rolling the dice because you'll be lucky if the card holds out for that long.
I suppose if you rarely game, you could add that in as a 3rd option, as well. I have a streaming PC that uses an RX 580 as the encoder. I would never use that GPU to reliably game on for 4 years.
