Now your "PC master race" mentality may not be able to digest it but the fact is 1440p continues to be a dual card resolution. To force a noob gamer into buying an inferior GPU to what they could actually afford just because their resolution doesn't meet your lofty standards is just bad advice and will have a negative impact on PC gaming when 2 year onwards that gamer would be struggling with most games at decent settings.
So the GTX 1080 does not max out every game at 1440p even at launch what do you think is going to happen going forward? Are you guys really that clueless about how fast GPU requirements increase to even consider such arguments? A GPU would need 120+ FPS in EVERY game for that argument to have any merit.