Yeah people are just being hoodwinked by nvidia into thinking the 2000 quid they just shelled out is a good deal as a Titan is normally £3000! It wouldn't have looked like a very good deal had nvidia called it the 3080ti but instead by calling it the 3090 it was a clever way to raise the price and at the same time make people think it's cheap.
He also said it was twice as fast as a 2080 when it reality it was more like 60%.
A salesman says a lot of things but that doesn't mean they are all true.
I don't think anyone that is the target audiance for a 3090 feels they have been hoodwinked, £1400 for a 3090 with 24GB of VRAM is a bargain to the right user and even £2k. Titan drivers or not, most people don't need Titan drivers and the studio drivers are enough and cuda and optix. I purchased 2 3090s for a sli/nvlink setup for work and same setup would have cost over double with a Titan card and the Titan drivers are useless to me.
Also customers were told 3090 is not really aimed at gaming but is a more powerful card than a 3080 and you can buy it if you like for gaming too but recommended to buy a 3080.
I liked the 3090 so much I purchased 2 more for another SLI system but decided to sell one to a work mate that needed a 3090 for work and kept the other one in the HTPC as a spare for my work rig (sli/nvlink 3090s in that), in case I needed to rma one of them, so as the target customer for such a card that I have been waiting for, I don't feel hoodwinked as it helps me make a living.
Buy a 3090 to play games on and then complain it was too expensive is the users mistake for making the purchase that was not really aimed at them. There are people gaming on Quadros and Titans because they think it will make their gaming better and dont care how they blow their money and now even seeing people buying the A6000 to game on and have no other use for it a £5.5K- £6k card because they don't want to wait for a 3090 or some other GPU.
Also a 10GB card to me for work is useless (but a 3080 for gaming is amazing at the FE price, at £1K-1.2K they sell at now is basically same as I thought of the 2080ti overpriced for what it is intended for .. gaming.. sadly new world norms now £1k+ gaming cards), 3090s with 24GB and the ability to pool VRAM and make use of a total of 48GB and 2x GPU power is amazing to me for the price. The A6000 has 48GB but one GPU and costs £6k. I have now same memory and twice the gpu power for less than half the price if you buy 3090FE cards. If you buy 3090 AIB cards at £2k each that's still a saving of £2k over a A6000 and you have a more powerful setup than the A6000 if you don't need the A6000 drivers. See how it works now for people using it for work ?
Example in the video of another happy user that thinks the 3090 is a bargain and many more examples if you search youtube of people actually using them for work :-
This guy has 8 x 3090s.
A6000