:O
you just declared war on the ryzen band camp...
Not to mention the people who are waiting for the 7920x to start buying like me..
I am a firm supporter of MOAR CORES~!!
More cores can be better. But as a programmer myself, I see more cores for gaming being virtually impossible to do well with the rush to get games out on a set schedule. Which would you choose, get out a game before the Christmas season, or wait until January to get 2% more performance per core? There just isn't that much parallel computation needed in games that can be programmed to do well with that many cores (other than graphics which are handled by the GPU anyways).
I have also done extensive computer modelling and for that purpose, moar cores is almost always better (unless the CPU speed needs to be cut way back for heat and yield reasons).
I may eat my words, but the upcoming Threadripper will be great at workstation loads (will beat many Intel processors) and probably not very good at gaming (not bad, mind you, but not a 7740k killer either).