Nope i am afraid i dont concede that, they are very important metrics when looking at a processor.
Heat of course directly relates to how much you have to spend on cooling the dam thing, the 9900k is saddled with a big heat problem - although the 3900 is likely going to be a hot bugger as well but then it does have 24 threads.
Power usage, well i dont care too much for that to be honest but having an old platform with no upgrade path, no pcie4 ect ect is much more of an issue.
As for security, well i dont want my cpu getting slower one day because someone found a vuln that means god knows what needs to be plugged.
All these things are not critical to most folk yet are still important things to think of, imho much more important than 3% - 5% of FPS. This is what i am wondering, most seem to look right at the top of the table and thats that.
I am struggling to justify upgrading my 5820k, its been solid (well solid since it got all the early day bugs out of the bios's on X99) and gaming results of the new processors dont really have a huge difference.
But when i look at the big picture i can see my little ol 6 core is ancient and needing pushed on.
Well thats what i keep telling myself.