I get it... totally. But what can you do? At least it's more affordable to have more cores.
But who's running anything at stock cpu (your link)? The less cores the higher it clocks, the closer you are (but likely never catching - a point never in question) to catching it. As I said, a realistic scenario, a 5 ghz 7700k and a 6950x at 4.2 yielded 500 points difference overall. Again, not something you will make up, but... it's only going to be a couple hundred points when you are talking the jump from 8t to 16t assuming similar overclocks on the intel 8t (close to or 5ghz which should cover 4790K-7800k), and the Ryzen in the low 4s where it seems to top out on ambient.
Time will tell either way!