While it's hard to make proper judgments from compressed footage, there are parts that do look worse. We'll have to wait for the final game to release to know if they're due to a shift in focus, actual downgrades (likely for the sake of performance), or are purely contextual. I expect it's a combination of all three.
This is a very interesting thread though. Some of the comments are a marked departure from their poster's normal reaction to stuff like this ^^








