The
Tech Report found that stock Broadwell-C was surprisingly competitive compared to stock Skylake-K in gaming situations when judged through the lens of frame time consistency. Granted, it is a slim lead, but CPU performance never really provides stunning leaps in gaming performance. And the slim lead is likely within the review's margin of error, but nothing looked egregiously out of wack, so I give it a pass in that respect.
So while gaming is only a sliver of the potential use cases for a modern computer, I think it's a decent chunk of the market for these kinds of CPUs - decent enough for Intel to keep putting out these kinds of CPUs at least.