THey can't move the new products according to this morning talks, so they might benefit from a shortage and they have a history of shady tactics like GPP to muzzle bad reviews.
Interesting that FEs are working, I had heard that that configuration was problematic. Have you seen much thermal throttling with them butting up against each other? I was going to resign myself to one blower 1080Ti in slot 1 and then a 2080Ti in 2 and 4, but maybe I don't have to :-)