I don't doubt that! My point was that a 9th-gen i7 is beef enough to handle literally everything I've ever thrown at it, games or otherwise, yet some newer games with very few graphical enhancements (I'm talking not even ray-tracing) are so poorly optimised, that the hardware isn't to blame. UE5 in general, for instance, is a hot mess, not in terms of graphical fidelity, but in terms of software bulk and resource consumption. And it really doesn't look THAT much better when compared to UE4.

I'd rather just stop buying half-baked software than be strong-armed into expensive and unnecessary upgrades to play a game which was clearly rushed to market and is oftentimes incomplete not just from a software perspective, but also from a narrative and feature perspective.