if you go for a more reasonable config then it's not too bad. 

my thought process is this. a quad core is more than fast enough for most people. 16GB of ram is basically necessary these days. 256GB is enough, most stuff is in the cloud these days. the Radeon Pro 555X is plenty for most people. 

I've never noticed this before... But those iMacs have some really thiccc bezels.

That same design has been there since 2011. 

@DrMacintosh Shows how much attention I pay to the iMacs
I think the last time I used a mac desktop was one of those brightly coloured macs back in the late 90s (it was what the school library had).