The gap is barely noticeable anymore. A bit of dynamic res and 1-2 fps difference these days. Almost impossible to see or feel in most cases.

That said, 30fps is pretty unbearable for me in any action type game so I don't use my X1 anymore for anything but exclusives (which are slowly diminishing).

I wouldn't call the developers "lazy". The Division graphically looks like one of the best games available this gen.

Not sure why you assumed this.  Specifically from a 3rd party standpoint, devs have been pretty vocal about wanting parity or as close to it, between versions.  Because they don't want to answer to fans, or bigwigs of company A or company B.  The only place anyone will see what either console is capable of, will be from 1st party studios.

Yes, the PS4 is more powerful, but, devs actually have to utilize that power.

Those faster frames on XB1 are in limited areas that are more crowded which probably is more CPU bound than GPU. The XB1 does have a slightly faster CPU than PS4, so that is what I suspect is happening. Or it could be XB1 is running slightly different graphical settings that are less taxing in those certain situations. At any rate, the XB1 is clearly inferior to the PS4 in this game.

Both consoles have been low end hardware since the beginning so i wouldn't say so, simply now they use X1's hardware better (well in a way this is also shortening the gap isn't it?).

Developers when it comes to Multiplatform Games will always try to look for performance parity between both versions.

It is more than clear than when it comes to exclusives, there is not even a comparison with Ps4 games because the console is factually more powerful than the X1.

People said the gap would only get bigger.  I'm just a simple farm boy. I thought they knew what they were talking about. Sorry! But yeah, I guess Sony will push the console with their exclusives. Still, for the "Xbox only" gamer, is good to know that they aren't getting a far inferior experience like they used to.

I'm just glad that this gen my console is on the right side of the gap. Last gen it was frustrating hearing most multiplats ran worse on playstation. Good to get a gen with things revered.

No need to be sorry, the gap may only be getting bigger, but as I said, it won't matter if devs are more interested in parity than in reaching/surpassing limits.

One thing to point out as a consideration though, is that Sony very often pay out for PS4 owners to have more content in games. So 2-3 hours PS4 only content. Whereas this never seems to happen the other way around, as MS usually pay the extra money to get some timed advantage instead.