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So Haswell-E has 2011 pins Skylake has 1151 pins

Dunno if its as simple as that but - the "enterprise" chipsets have things like extra PCI-e lanes, quad channel memory and other hardware features (that are largely meaningless to your average consumer) that all require broader buses, etc.
 
The new Purley Xeon platform is rumoured to need more pins than they can fit on it. So they do something alright.

There's no conspiracy. Except changing the number of pins by 1 (one) between mainstream sockets purely to grub more money.
 
2011 has more pins because it has a quad channel memory controller instead of 1151's dual channel and also 28/40 PCI-E lanes vs 1151's 16 PCI-E lanes.
 
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