If Wby didn’t completely screw the pooch on their R700 clone, this rifle for $900 is a better option than the Tikka.
The ONLY downsides I can see with the Wby is 1) the fact it is catching your eye with a price tag, but is it really just buying a $900 action? The stock may just be a polymer noodle, and at that price point, is the barrel just a cold hammer forged barrel like the Vanguards, or a better button rifled barrel like the MkV’s? And 2) Is the action headspace controlled, meaning it is prefit barrel compatible, or are they all unique? This difference matters a lot for a high use, precision rifle, because the price difference between prefit barrels vs. Blanks plus smithing to set headspace is substantial - within one or two rebarrels, a $900 action/rifle plus 2 barrels costs more than a $1200-1400 action plus 2 prefits.
Personally, I would not buy an R700 clone meant for high volume precision shooting which was not headspace controlled. This WOULD be a deciding factor for me, alone.
For #1 above, if we found out it IS headspace controlled (which I can’t readily find online, so I think it is not), then I would think hard about a polymer noodle stock against a better stock, and I would think hard about the idea of turning a $900 factory rifle into a $3000 custom by adding a new barrel and stock/chassis, which is then still only worth $800 resold complete or $2000 if sold re-parted. If it’s just a CHF barrel, I would be pretty hard pressed to convince myself to buy it. A Savage would likely outshoot it’d a Ruger American shoot just as well, so I’d kinda look at it as a $900 action, if it‘s just a polymer noodle and a CHF barrel, and at that point, nah, there are better $900-1000 actions around, and there are better custom actions with prefit compatibility within reach of that price point to make the leap.
Maybe, maybe not better R700 clone than a Bergara HMR (differences from #1 above). Better aftermarket than a Tikka, Savage, or Ruger American, or Howa. These are the objective comparisons for value I would make.