I'm not sure I feel the same way. I will say, I enjoyed the heck out of tinkering on my FX 8370 CPU, but while the FX line of CPUs, also something I have in front of me regularly, clocked well, it performed very badly per clock cycle. Even Ryzen performs poorly for what it's capable of, because of a weak front end, the back end is consistently starved for work to be retired. So, the easiest low hanging fruit for AMD is actually just pairing the back end with a better front end. It would easily clobber Intel's Skylake architecture at that point, which all their current CPUs are based on.
I've had a high clocked FX system, but unfortunately big frequencies don't match actual work being done, no matter how fun it is to turn the boost clocks way up.
On the plus side, Ryzen 2 is supposed to boost better than Ryzen+, along with having better IPC, but of course that's only hearsay and irrelevant until purchaseable parts are actually shipping.
All that aside, there is a certain quality of experience one gets from having 8+ threads at their disposal on a Windows platform. Even if the threads are weak as can be, the quality of the experience is something that is better experienced than described. How does one describe the feeling of a V8 motor to a person that has only ever known the experience of driving a highly rated 4 banger? The AMD FX CPUs may have been bad at overall work being done, but you still got to enjoy some buttered leather moments while waiting to get from point A to B.