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>But it's 2025, the series and racing games in general have certainly improved since then
Not really. What a good racing game needs is good track design and tight controls with some deliberate grease factor/oversteer/weight. All things games already had in the 90s and which arguably peaked 20 years ago. You can say graphics are better today but even that's subjective because retro graphics usually leave more to imagination or have better readability in HD