<<Buy the best card you can at the price you can afford. And for f***'s sake, pull the trigger.>>
No not really. You just willingly ignored 1 factor that renders the 980 trash at its price point. Nothing should ever be considered relative to it's own lineup, just its place in the whole market. Even if Linus did make a somewhat rash statement the end goal is the same, the 980 is still shit for other reasons.