You're not understanding the concept, and I'm not sure why I have to explain this to you. The "Editor's Choice" is an industry standard thing that applies ONLY AT THE TIME OF REVIEW. There is, of course, discretion of the award by "The Editor", in this case W1zzard, but the timeframe for which the award is relevant is consistent across all journalists, and across all market sectors.
So, let me make this super, objectively, unambiguously clear to you:
At the time of this review, the 14900K is the fastest consumer CPU for rendering, encoding, productivity, simulation, compiling, browsing or emulating on the market.
It doesn't matter what came before it.
It doesn't matter what comes after it.
Right now, it's the best you can buy for those workloads I listed above (and more).
There are Editor's Choice awards for products from 1993 that you shouldn't buy today because they're obsolete.
There are going to be Editor's Choice awards for products released decades from now that you can't buy today because they don't exist yet.
Right now, and ONLY right now, the 14900K gets an Editor's choice award for being the best CPU at all the things it wins at, which happens to be quite a lot of what most people want a CPU to do.
Would I personally buy a 14900K?
No; It's too hot, too power-hungry, and unnecessary for me - but that doesn't change the fact that the 14900K is, for many people, the best and fastest CPU they'll have access to right now, at a price that is (relative to inflation, platform costs, and competitor prices) more reasonable than both it's 13900K predecessor, as well as the 7950X3D competition.