People with PRO's have finally come online with their opinions and despite some disapointment out there It's getting a lot of priase. A great thing has happened in that people are given an excuse to revist the games they own, to dive into their backlog and give games another try or to replay their favourites. I'm not sure that's worth 800 euro but it's something at least and as a new PS5 owner I'm right there with them, feels like getting what I missed out on waiting so long on 9th gen. They are getting me hyped up and ya gotta love it.
Unfortunately from consensus I have gathered, the hypothesis I made in the OP holds largely true apart from a few titles, FF7 Rebirth being one that defies this and is such a blurry game on base PS5 performance that the PRO is showing such drastic improvements that it is noticable at a distance. I'm also surprised to find that, from a glance, there are many, many people in the enthusiast bracket who game with PS5 hooked up to a PC monitor, Idk when this became a thing or if it's a trend at all and just a minority on social media but I think it's quite genius. On a 32" 4k monitor you are getting the absolute best advantage of 4k and it shows in people's reactions to the pro who have this kinda setup ot game in "man dens" where they are really close to a big old TV.
If I were a new PS5 PRO user I'd go straight to reducing distance between the TV and me, I'd go as far as putting my computer chair in the living room so I can whip it out vlose to the TV for games I want to see in their best form. I done this for PSVR for months and it was pretty nice and not nearly as annoying as it sounds, Hell I pull it out every now and then if I have back pain so it'd be no real imposition. Alas, I'm am a little less secure in my decision to skip the PRO and go Slim than I was yesterday but I look at it as I'll have a better PS6 experience, I made my bets and I'm happy out. Happy also for the PRO owners, I thought for sure there would be a lot more disapointment so good to see people getting something from what they paid for and above all else having fun with games.