They won't hire anybody because that means extra costs for a feature that, given its absence, they don't think they need.
And the benchmark, if they want to do it right and be representative of something, has be feature different hardware configurations. At the very least, they should go with something that could be called middle-range, and feature Intel & AMD CPUs (even one of each and dissable cores to simulate other chips could work), and AMD & Nvidia GPUs (two or three of each brand). But again, that is time consuming and means having one guy doing all those tests for at last a couple days to get only one article. They're clearly not interested.
And just because they do the PC show, that doesn't mean that they put a lot of money into it. We don't know how much do the sponsors give and how much does the whole show cost. For all we know, the part PCGamer invests could be rather small and be perfectly reasonable for the advertising and publicity they get for it.
As for Anno, I didn't say complicated, I said complex. The econonmy or resources systems could be more complex and give the game some much needed deep without making the game complicated, just more demanding.
Please excuse my bad English.
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