Why the "hardware hate" is so big these days?

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Flilix said:
I never cared much about hardware and graphics, and I think it's stupid that so many people do.

Why is that? Improved graphics and hardware allows for new game mechanics and higher degrees of immersiveness.

etking said:
Maybe it is because some design decisions are really bad. The PS4 and Pro are super lame compared to any modern PC because they have no real GPU. And the Switch is generations behind and cannot compete at all, they just used the wrong chip and the dock should not be an empty piece of plastic but contain a secondary SLI GPU instead.

You aren't wrong that a PC is massively ahead of the Playstation 4... However. The Playstation 4 most certainly has a "real" GPU. It's packaged differently. Sure.