So the Ti and 3080 12GB models were given their MSRPs at the height of the shortage/gouging madness and those MSRPs exist only so that Nvidia could do the scalping themselves rather than leave room for other scalpers to make easy money at Nvidia's expense.
The fact that the MSRP is the scalper price doesn't make this a very easy pill to swallow.
The 3080, 3070, 3060Ti, and 3060 are all still far above their MSRP, often approaching double their MSRP. Pricing is getting slowly better, but we're not out of the woods yet, not even close; We're perhaps in a small clearing but still very much surrounded by danger, to double down on that idiom.