Before your average slop-consuming normie realizes that photorealism is bland, plastic, pointless cancer of the games industry that's directly or indirectly responsible for EVERY SINGLE TERRIBLE THING ABOUT GAMING and not in a million years and a trillion polygons put into every single model will we actually be able to mimic a FRACTION of the natural, effortless beauty and chaos of real life.
Before this happens we'll remain in this pohotorealism-chasing limbo paradigm which will reinforce the "need" (completely artificial) for dogshit engines like Unreal to exist and promote its cancerous meme tech.

The problem isn't the engine. The problem is what the public wants (or thinks it wants)