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Yes, definitely.
HT mostly benefits synthetic benchmarks and certain server workloads. For gaming it usually hurts performance, especially in terms of latency and stutter. Paying ~$100 extra over 9700K just for HT is pretty wasteful, even for applications where HT is beneficial, since those workloads scale even better with even more cores.
Most of these trolls dont want for gaming, they just want to show off, so for them i9 9900 is better than the i7 9700 which is false regarding games or anything that requires a pure single threaded application.