That was my exact first thought as well.

“Oh gee they want better repairibility and upgrade potential? Maybe stop fucking changing the socket with every new generation so people don’t feel like they need to do a complete replacement for every new gen…

Oop, new CPU? That means a new motherboard and cooler, because the new CPU has a new socket. And a new motherboard means new RAM, because the old DDR4 ram isn’t compatible with the DDR5 slots. And if I’m replacing the CPU, Mobo, and RAM, I might as well go ahead and throw it in a new computer case instead of ripping the old stuff out. But now I need a new power supply for the new case.

At that point, I have put together everything except the GPU and storage. I’ll probably pull the drives out of my old machine, and just get a new SSD for the OS partition. I guess I can use integrated graphics on my old computer if I ever boot it back up again. But now my old machine has been sitting in my closet taking up space for two years, because I don’t want to get rid of it entirely and I also don’t feel like I can properly use it without a GPU and storage. So it just collects dust, because upgrading my CPU basically required rebuilding 90% of the PC and pilfering the other 10% from my old machine.

Yeah, honestly this is why I didn’t buy Intel last time I did an upgrade.

I literally bought Intel, decided I wanted Intel, and then when I found out it was likely the board wasn’t going to be useful with any other chip, I just returned the whole kit.