In another year or two you will have to choose between buying a new car or a complete computer. Asus released two fully decked out boards and are asking for over $1,000 (USD) for them. If these companies are trying to kill off individual users owning their products and of course both gaming and application software, they are really doing a great job.
Right now I wouldn't pay anything hardware based nor would I even try to think about any sort of total upgrade - cpu, mobo, memory, gpu. I simply will not pay so much for a product that will become dated and obsolete so fast in just a year. However even 2 years after release so many parts are still demanding a high retail price. All these companies need to start thinking about gamers and individuals rather than mining as one day they could find themselves ignored by users who will seek out alternatives to the inflated and grossly high profit margins by going with mostly entry level computers and would or will have to shy away from big name games and applications as the budget computer won't be able to support or provide the performance those apps and games will demand.
The industry can't blame it on the consoles either, like in the past. Yes the supply chain is in shambles, covid still keeping factories from coming back on line at 100% capacity, new designs of hardware and sadly a great deal of inflation in many countries due to the price of gas, but if they want to see sales in the industry to flatten out as demand based on their prices will simply not draw the customers they need to have great looking financial statements.
So Sapphire needs to maybe remove a digit from their price as I can't see anyone, no matter how much of a gamer, or video editor or whatever, putting out $3,000+ just for a graphics card.