So to summarise..
-Crashing,
-No stock,
-Questionable decisions by AIBs cheaping out on components,
-An upcoming announcement from AMD on GPUs in 4 weeks time,
-G-Sync compataibility issues with the LG OLED CX for 4:4:4 (the main reason people seem to want HDMI 2.1),
-Leaks from AIBs of a 20GB model coming at some point,
-Retailers being extremely dodgy and vague
-Retailers hiking up prices
-Preorders having no time frame on when they'll be delivered
And yet still the toilet roll generation are pre-ordering in their hundreds and thousands for NVIDIA GPUs.
You honestly can't write this stuff.
Even if you have your mind set on an NVIDIA GPU, surely wait for other idiots to buy up the batch 1 of the faulty crashing GPUs and wait for the silent hardware revision which is near guaranteed to come from most AIBs worth their reputation.
I get paying the early adopter fee and wanting a nice GPU. I did it with the 20 series which was terrible value. But when we have a faulty, immature, low stock product with a competitor announcement literally <4 weeks away, why in the world would you pre-order?
And specifically a piece of tech like a GPU which is very difficult to properly refund from these smaller companies, where if you've even attempted to install the GPU, they'll kick up a fuss and force you into a 28-56 cycle of RMA-hell on a product with low stock levels.