I see a lot of complaints, but reading some of the responses, not everyone believes in the gloom and doom that others have been putting out there. Since price is an issue, consider the pricing over the past five years. I look at the market in the USA, so the prices in Canada primarily was just the difference between US and Canadian Dollars.
In 2017, the Ryzen 7 1800X was $500 for the MSRP, though many just went to the 1700 at that point and didn't really lose too much. Motherboards, $250 or so for the high end at the time. Go forward to the 2700X, yep, it was a minor upgrade over the 1800X, but clock speed was a bit better, IPC a bit better. Those 400 series chipsets didn't add a lot, and were fundamentally the 300 series chipsets for motherboards.
And then, 2019, Zen2, and the Ryzen 9 3900X had that $500 MSRP for 12 cores. One thing that hurt a bit was that the top end motherboards in the 500 series were now into the $450 range or even higher due to the move to PCIe 4.0 and the need for signal integrity. Or at least, that was the big excuse. So, motherboard prices were now higher, though you could still get budget X570 chipset boards in the $200 range, the feature set had also improved from 2017 to 2019. Zen3 increased the price by $50, but eliminated the budget chips, so no Ryzen 7 5700 or 5700X, and many saw that as a big price increase. Price increase from 3800X to 5800X was....$50. So, prices didn't really go through the roof. $550 for the 5900X.
So, it's been two years since the Zen3 release, if the 7900X is now $600, with inflation, cost for shipping and other things being taken into account, then yea, it's another increase, but $50 more, compared to the 5900X isn't going to scare me. Motherboard price, $450 or so....that's your typical high end board price these days as well, and isn't all that much higher compared to the X570 boards at launch, considering new version of PCIe, more M.2 slots, and other features such as 2.5Gbbps or even 10Gbps ethernet are included.
For RAM, there has always been the option, go for budget RAM, or go for the expensive stuff. Feb of 2017 had 32GB of DDR4-3200CL16 RAM(2x16GB) costing $190 for not even great RAM. If the price of DDR5-6000CL30 EXPO supporting RAM ends up being $350, sure it's high, but it's still early days. If you don't want to pay for the "good stuff", you can get 32GB of DDR5 for $200-$250 as well.
People get very comfortable with just dropping a new CPU into their computer, because AMD has kept socket compatibility very well, especially compared to Intel. So, the idea of actually needing a new motherboard+CPU+RAM all at the same time is what hurts some people. Not everyone needs to go to the high end, or the highest end. Still, I just think, CPU price is really only $50 more than Zen3, or that's what I expect it to end up being. When spending $1200+ for a new motherboard+CPU+RAM, $50 or $100 more today vs. 2020 really doesn't feel like it's that big a deal. Keep in mind that you can use the new motherboard and RAM for your next CPU upgrade or two if you stick with the AMD side of things(2022 to 2024 to 2026 on same motherboard+RAM). In that period of time, you KNOW that you would need to replace your motherboard several times if you were on Alder Lake, or went to Raptor Lake and wanted to upgrade your CPU again in another two to three years, then again in 2026 or 2027. For that sort of use, that $100 or even $200 that you are complaining about for CPU and RAM prices being higher won't seem like such a big deal, would it?