I don't care what anybody says. @ 20% better performance than a Vega 64 and only $100 more than the Vega 64 price at launch(plus the 3 free games)...it's a good deal. Especially if you have any other reasons to avoid Nvidia(which MANY of us do, some at all costs).
Once AMD gets the premature driver issues worked out, I think it will be a real contender, just like Vega 56/64 have become at their respective price points (provided you're not running a reference card in a poorly ventilated case... like it almost seems a lot of reviewers must be doing, because I get far better results with my Sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64). Some of the reviews/benchmarks I've seen have already put the Radeon VII within 5% of the 2080, on average, with a few notable, clear-cut wins. So, if they fix whatever is going on with the drivers that is causing unexpectedly low performance in certain games/applications, the performance gap will narrow and the Radeon VII may even pull ahead.
For those of us who are essentially boycotting Nvidia for their anti-consumer, anti-competitive, opportunistic, monopolistic business practices (at least with regard to the "GeForce Partner Program"), that could make the Radeon VII a very compelling product. Personally, I also prefer AMD's drivers/software over Nvidia's clunky control panel and "GeForce Experience" (which I find to be a bad experience, overall). I hate having to use third-party software for my Nvidia cards to accomplish simple tasks like setting a frame rate limit, basic overclocking, etc.
So, those are some of my thoughts, for whatever they're worth.