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I'd personally say it goes beyond user error when the connector seemingly requires an obscene amount of force to be fully connected. That seems more of a design flaw to me.
Because no one is going to pay $1200 for a $500 GPU. >

$1800 for a significant fire hazard. >

I had to look that up so I could worry about something else, lol. I’m seeing the GTX 4090 is catching fire and I guess for the rest keep them clean, well ventilated and pray. >

It's the cheaply-made angled power connector that is prone to failure (melting), not the thermal output of the card itself. >

Nah, Gamer's Nexus did some exceptional reporting on this, and the primary issue is user error (though NVIDIA shares some blame for making the 4090 so large and awkward with a weird power adapter).