I think the issue some people have with AdoredTV is that he consistently went where no one wanted to go, for obvious reasons. His decision to trust the information, and place enough value on it to make it worth sharing was/is his alone. This is why he's being held to task because he was/is practically spreading his gullibility and boosting the legitimacy of the information by saying he trusts his sources. By so doing, he put himself on the chopping board.
Can't agree more with Potato.
The few leak videos of his I've re-watched all seem to start with him mentioning taking a shot of salt before going further with the video.
The h8te he's getting is in the minority from those who've got unrealistic expectations of 16c 5Ghz @$300 starting to worry, and the majority of many who seem to have disappeared from AT ever since the reality of Zen became apparent.
Ryzen 3000 is at a minimum going to be a big jump over Intel with PCIe4, 8-16c, mostly likely improved IPC at or almost equal to Intel, improved clocks, etc, etc.
If it can reach 4.5g on all cores, 8 or 12, then thats going to simply be another step forward in meeting/exceeding Intel and stealing more marketshare.
Ryzen 3K doesn't need to beat Intel in one fell swoop, and its not a downer if it doesn't either.
Only an idiot would claim AMD has failed because barely more than 2 years in AMD hasn't soundly thrashed Intel.
It will simply give AMD the financial wherewithal and time to continue pushing the envelope forward, instead of stagnating and spoon feeding technology in a way which extracts the most out of customers wallets as Intel does... or did.