You can look at it this way though. Just because something like the 8700k isn't ALWAYS or even MOSTLY, going to be helpful to you now, it WILL be once you upgrade your GPU card later down the road, so if you want to upgrade anyhow, Coffee lake DOES show a considerable performance increase over Skylake in a lot of areas, and once you are no long GPU bound, you might reap some real rewards at that time.
Plus, there will almost certainly be SOME games and situations where it will be helpful NOW. Because during raids and in major cities, etc., there can be no doubt that CPU performance can become just as much of a consideration as the graphics card is. Minimum frame rates can absolutely lag due to CPU performance, or lack of it, in those cases. Even if it doesn't offer you a 20% increase in overall playability 90% of the time, it might offer you a 60% increase in playability 10% of the time. Especially if you up the ante with a higher tiered card whenever the next releases come around.