The sad part is, this may pan out and people will defend it because of SFF and how it's a premium product. *cough* Fury Nano *cough*. Hopefully AMD agrees with them and doesn't price cut it a few months after release.
You aren't the first person I've seen say something similar, comparing GTX 1080 FE MSRP to Vega 64 MSRP, but odd in other conversations the time the GTX cards were on the market or their current MSRP doesn't matter because "this is now, that was then."
On the topic of hating on Vega. I don't personally hate it, just seriously disappointed. The future article of what happened will be an interesting read. The tech in AMD is impressive. It might outlive Pascal (as previous AMD products have) but it seems AMD just can't learn from it's own mistakes and it's remaining vocal supporters are fine with it.
What I mean is, AMD is a corporation that badly needs funding. They can't compete with out it. But for years, a good chunk of their vocal supporters don't support AMD with their money. They seem to exploit AMD more than anything else. You can probably count on one hand the number of Pro-AMD posters who buy AMD GPUs at original MSRP outside of those using them with the intention of mining (their goal is to make money not to promote AMD - classic example huge raving AMD promoter used his mining profits to buy SLI 1070's for his gaming rig ). HD 7970 got lashed at for being too expensive. 290X wasn't as highly recommended until AIBs and then after the mining bubble popped it no one was rushing to buy "expensive" new models gobbling up used models. How many posters here actual own Fury outside of the ones that bought them after the huge discounts?
And the kicker was basically an AMD salesman promoting future miracle gains and then "I wasn't even planning on buying" confession. It's just comical.