The reason why games look worse and run worse today is because we hit the literal pinnacle of graphics back in 2015, and now the only way to sell more GPUs is by piling on meaningless effects nobody actually cares about and outsourcing optimisation to third world countries They keep promoting new ''revolutionary'' technologies that halve your framerate and are half the time mandatory only so they can keep the status quo to sell you that new graphics card or console. Look at any game from like 2014-2020 and ask yourself if you actually need more than this at all