Heh I also only sprung for 32 GB of RAM this time, which is still double my 4790K's 16 GB. But I don't use Chrome so RAM doesn't get used that heavily. ;)
I think it's very telling so many people upgrading now are coming from Haswell chips, they are a legendary chip generation, and arguably the last time anyone needed a CPU upgrade short of operating system support or warranty concerns.
Officially it most certainly does not. Haswell chips are fourth-generation processors, Windows 11 requires eighth-generation processors. Though of course, if you bypass the checks it will install anyways.
I think it's very telling so many people upgrading now are coming from Haswell chips, they are a legendary chip generation, and arguably the last time anyone needed a CPU upgrade short of operating system support or warranty concerns.