There are some that don't (such as many of the gaming benchmarks), but they also have Factorio in the CPU category where it, of course, blows the 9700x out of the water. I don't think anybody was expecting anything but the 9x00x3D to be able to compete with that though. We saw the same thing with the 5700x3D.
Other comments on the actual article say the same, so I might not have imagined things and they were added after publication.