>>713449147 (OP)
as someone old enough to remember this, there is an upside to it - your hardware lasts a fuckload longer and does better with it. There are many reasons why (including moore's law coming close to its end of 'easy' progress , unified hardware and engines, other forms of diminishing progress etc) but there was a time when you could buy a $3000-4000 PC and it barely play next year's games at all, or without major new features. Consoles made sense back in the day when it was the only way to game - while still spending a lot of cash for its era - compared to buying a PC that was massively different hardware and orders of magnitude more expensive.
There are definitely things that have gotten worse from monetization practices, normalfags ruining shit, and NVidia specifically spending years to shitfuck gaming around their proprietary compute favoring cards, but
>it doesn't have the same uplift as SNES to PS1
is sort of a minor issue beccause we've hit a more stable equilibrium. There are still games that push the envelope (ie Star Citizen, in both graphics and mechanics is made with the finest grade immersion autism possible ) but I can't be upset that some anon can play a multiplat on 5 year old GPUs at high settings or whatnot.
