I'm not sure I like the idea of one socket and one motherboard unifying multiple different Zen iterations. As mentioned in the article, the top-end motherboards absolutely have to have the most modern features or else I won't be interested. The main reason I wanted to upgrade to Z170 was because of the PCI-e x4 support that allowed for very fast M.2 and PCI-e SSD's. That's genuinely exciting to me. Really, it was the Z170 chipset that interested me more than the 6600/6700K, to be quite honest. Whilst you won't have to upgrade your motherboard with every CPU change, will you be left behind as Intel releases new chipsets with new valuable features?