AMD

Eh this isn't some and only thing... Intels Pentium and Celeron lines are now their bottom barrel chips too. And i7s used to be their top tier outside of the server market? Now they have i9s...

Sometimes just to really say how much better the new components are? They gotta give them a new name, and thus push down their old brand.

And AMD has also kinda neglected their tiers below R5 in general. We don't even have Zen 3 or 4 Ryzen 3s yet. And honestly it kinda seems like AMD has mostly just decided they'd rather price cut prior generation parts than make lower end chips example being they made the R5 1600 "AF" for $80 rather than making an Athlon or Ryzen 3 chip for a while there. And then when they did make the Ryzen 3 3100/3300? They were basically paper launched compared to the 1600 AFs.