It's an AMD problem because AMD flat out lied about AM5 in their slides.
AMD said "
$125 motherboards" would "
grow with you" and would last "
through 2025+".
In reality, these $125 motherboards have a cut down chipset and cut down VRM that doesn't even support today's X or X3D series CPU, let alone those from 2025+.
When people buy a $125 motherboard, only to realise it doesn't support X or X3D CPU and they can't upgrade, they're not going to be happy.
AMD writes right under the "
$125 motherboard" sentence that you could "
grow to PCIe 5.0", implying you could use existing PCIe 4.0 hardware and then upgrade it to 5.0 hardware. But the $125 B620 mobo don't support PCIe 5.0, they feature PCIe 4.0 and only use PCIe 3.0 for the chipset lanes. There is no "
growing into PCIe 5.0", these boards flat out don't support PCIe 5.0.