Being a few generations behind is kinda par for the course for any server hardware that's put in production, this is not a gaming PC build. Hopefully they're working on bringing their hardware up to date, since efficiency is a key consideration for the class of workloads they're aiming at.

> Being a few generations behind is kinda par for the course for any server hardware that's put in production

No it’s not. Normally if you’re buying server hardware you don’t start with a CPU that’s already 5 years old and last-generation RAM that isn’t even manufactured at scale any more.

CPUs have advanced a lot in recent years. The jump from Zen 3 to Zen 5 is very substantial.