SSD literally means Solid State Drive. Did you notice the letters "SSD" in the name of the Intel's product?
I predicted you would be this pedantic.
If you want to be pedantic and say that Optane is a "solid state drive" then so are lots of other things like RAM, DVD discs, and BIOS chips.
Do you know what else is solid state? Mechanic hard drives, Books, and carved stone tablets. I don't know how to make it more clear to you than I already have; The term "SSD" in the PC industry refers to a specific type of NAND+controller arrangement - Bootable USB memory sticks, eMMC Chromebook drives, and Optane drives
aren't included. I have already listed several other "solid state" storage mediums but despite being
solid state drives, they are not classed as such and go out of their way to make the distinction that they are
not SSDs.
If you don't like those rules, then argue with the manufacturers, not me. Intel themselves go out of their way to say that 3D Xpoint is not NAND, and Optane is not an SSD
If you really believe that "people" cannot see difference between 5x faster drive then I guess any SSD will do for those people and benchmarking any SSD drives is wasted effort. I can definitely see difference between 905P and e.g. Samsung 980 but I know where the difference really shows. On the other hand, I also know how much more expensive 905P is so I don't get it for every system.
This depends on your definition of "people". If by "people" you mean people like me who are enterprise datacenter architects spinning up dozens of database VMs per host with 50K IOPS needed per host with overheads, then yes - Optane has a place. That is, in fact, what Optane was designed for and it does a fantastic job.
If by "people" you mean your average consumer, like me at home with a single-socket CPU on a consumer motherboard just trying to do consumer things like game, encode, compile, and piss about with benchmarking software, then Optane is completely pointless outside of pissing about with benchmarking software. What exactly are you doing that can justify a $2500 purchase on a refurbished, discontinued product that Intel abandoned in the consumer market because it was so utterly pointless?
Intel cancelled Optane, the consumer version of it's 3D Xpoint storage, because there was no viable consumer market for it.
You cannot buy it (new) any more, it has limited purpose outside of extremely niche applications, and even when you could buy it as a consumer it was frighteningly expensive for marginal gains.
If I had to guess, these are the reasons why TechPowerUp doesn't compare consumer SSDs to Optane any more.