Thank you for the nice write-up!
I want to buy a new PC this year, but I will probably stick to my current 5700xt for the time being and get my hands on a 9070xt in a couple of years when they find their way to the used market.
This 5700xt is the first GPU I bought second hand, I repasted it 1 year after purchase and never gave me issue overall.
Function over form, I suppose. I am pretty sure it's mostly made of titanium and silicone.
It does seems like that sometimes tho, that surgeons are the mechanics of the human body, fixing you up in the most crude ways, as long as it gets the job done.