Look it all sounds great so I'd be happy for it to be real, but maintainig super good frequency while adding 2 cores on an already extremely mature node doesn't seem that likely. Not impossible but optimistic. A full range refresh also wasn't really expected. What really pushes me into "this isn't real" territory is the extremely aggressive pricing. Intel has been struggling to fulfil demand for quite a while, and although I'm sure that's now improving, the performance deficit between Intel and AMD is not so large as to warrent offering 10c/20t for $70 USD cheaper than you offered 8c/16t threads last year. Huge price cuts across the performance range while also activating hyperthreading on literally every chip? This seems like wishful thinking.
It's not like I want this to be untrue, it just seems really out there.