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Perhaps you should read the links you post to save yourself looking foolish.....
Not even moving past your first link.....
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11180/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-review
So a review of the 1080ti, released 10 months after the gtx 1080, where the article you linked acknowledges that the flagship for the past ten months has been the GTX1080! (or the perhaps the Titan x [1st release pascal] which came out 3 months after after the 1080 but before the 1080ti...but the 1080 was the flagship in the authors view from release at least up until the Titan x was released!)
The quote you posted....
Is a clear allusion to the fact that the 1080ti was released the subsequent year to the 1080 hence it was that years (2017) flagship card at the time much like the 1080 was a flagship card for the previous year (2016)!
Your link also confirms the point about it being good business sense to not release a big die mainstream, consumer gpu first due to yield issues and the reduced costs of releasing a bigger die product after the release of a smaller die product to refine the process.
Thanks for making my points for me!
Wow... that's quite some mental gymnastics to try and support your claim.
It's funny to watch...