What the hell is going on with product segmentation? It seems like there's a confusing mass of very subtle differences between motherboards and processors that's only spelled out in fine print. Slots that only work in certain configurations if you don't have too many drives or an M.2 card plugged in; no SLI support on motherboards that call themselves 'Gamer' motherboards. Confusing numbers wrt. to PCIe lanes on processors vs. chipsets. Argh.
Is this some conspiracy to make things confusing? Or is there actually some logic behind this that I'm just missing? I'm looking at you Intel & Nvidia....