“More bullshit afoot as power supply manufacturers look for excuses to cause obsolesence in one of the least frequently replaced parts”

How about doing a little DIY, removing the 16-pin connector and crimping two 8-pin connectors? Or, perhaps, connect a 16 to 8 pin adapter.

Now, I haven’t read the article, but 8+8=16 so I feel like this issue could be easily solved, if only there was someone who could apply this numeric logic to psus…