Im just looking into CPU and motherboard upgraded GPU last year, and already have everything important on m.2, some sata ssds and some long storage HDDs (which are slowly ding but I'm not using them)
So I don't really need anything except the CPU and GPU, have 32 GB of ddr4 ram, so I'm not looking to upgrade right now.
The main thing for me is prices here in Germany are weird as fuck.
Intel
i5
13400
220 €
Intel
i5
14400
240 €
Intel
i5
13500
255 €
Intel
i5
14500
256 €
Intel
i5
13600k
321 €
Intel
i5
14600k
323 €
AMD Ryzen
7
5800X3D
287 €
AMD Ryzen
7
5600X3D
264 €
So that's my main issue the last gen is not less expensive so, it doesn't make sense.