Putting AMD aside, but vulnerability issues suddenly make Intel CPUs without HT looks viable? (eg 9700/9700K, 9400/9500/9600/9600K)
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Hyper-Threading issues are only Kaby-Lake and older, Coffee Lake has hardware level fixes that allows you keeping HT so the i7 8700K or i9 9900K is still perfectly fine to keep it.
I do feel bad for i7 7700K owners though, didn't they get burn by Intel enough that now their CPU must be an i5 7600K...