They clearly are cutting a major cost on B9 this year.
Even the TV stand is entirely made of plastic with no cable management slot unlike the C9 .
Judging on how slow B8 has been getting firmware updates , the B9 will likely be given the same treatment .
It only had received the HDR brightness fluctuation patch months after the C8 .

As of today , the B8 has yet to receive the near black gradient improvement updates while the C and E owners have already gotten it for 6 months ago .
At this point , we don't even know if they are still coming .

The other major turn off for me is still the very inaccurate out of box settings , since most of these buyers don't calibrate their TV .
Everything the B9 does well , the other models and brands like Panasonic & Sony OLEDs can do just as good , if not better.
If people are fine with that , I guess $9000 is still an extremely good deal for a 65" OLED .
Or maybe wait for Sony to pull another "$7999" for A8G soon like they did with A8F

A8G definitely , especially if you don't need it for gamings .  A8G inherits all the amazing picture processing quality from the very high end A9F & A9G .

It lacks the HDMI 2.1 & eARC , so you have to ask yourself if you really want that 2 features .

And Acoustic screen surface is awesome .