It's confirmation bias. You ignore/downplay the things that create internal conflict, and you embellish/overplay the things (regardless of how few) that fortify your life-choices. We're all susceptible, although very few of us are aware of it when it's happening. And even when you make people aware of it, most of them will confirmation-bias that awareness  right out of their minds before even considering it (usually by using an ad hominem fallacy toward the person who brought it to their attention). It's a real problem.

For me, I just want to play third party games on whatever platform they run the best on. I have multiple platforms. I don't care which hunk of hardware does that better. I just want the best experience, tech/spec wise. That's all that matters to me.

(i) “Really fighting” are my words, not his. Doesn’t mean it’ll happen—heck, Microsoft’s having a hard time getting Starfield working on NS2—but that there does appear to potentially be interest at Rockstar.

(ii) Why not PC? TBH I think it’s because Rockstar wants the least amount of controversy possible with this launch. There has never been such a thing as releasing a game which demands strong PC specs and receiving acclaim at launch— most PC gamers don’t have the hardware to support many modern games running at 1440p 60fps as much as they like to deny this reality. That’s the reason so many great games like MHWilds, Dragon’s Dogma 2, first-party Sony, etc., have been torn to shreds by the Steam community at launch: They simply don’t have the hardware to match the software, and so, they blame the devs.

It's confirmation bias. You ignore/downplay the things that create internal conflict, and you embellish/overplay the things (regardless of how few) that fortify your life-choices. We're all susceptible, although very few of us are aware of it when it's happening. And even when you make people aware of it, most of them will confirmation-bias that awareness  right out of their minds before even considering it (usually by using an ad hominem fallacy toward the person who brought it to their attention). It's a real problem.

For me, I just want to play third party games on whatever platform they run the best on. I have multiple platforms. I don't care which hunk of hardware does that better. I just want the best experience, tech/spec wise. That's all that matters to me.

Indeed, people want the confirmation that your choice is the best version, so they keep telling everytime that something places below that, it looks like shit

You can find that a game looks like shit bc it doesnt match your criteria and I can look at this discrepance in visual performance and find a total overblown and everybody play the game exactly how they want in your own platform of choice...

Thats the beauty of the free will: having different parameters and different preferences

Ok, I dont care. Its really not that difficult. There is always something that will be objectively the best in the visual department. When it will stop? 16k 180 fps? I just wont be spending my funds to chase a constant moving ideal

(i) “Really fighting” are my words, not his. Doesn’t mean it’ll happen—heck, Microsoft’s having a hard time getting Starfield working on NS2—but that there does appear to potentially be interest at Rockstar.

(ii) Why not PC? TBH I think it’s because Rockstar wants the least amount of controversy possible with this launch. There has never been such a thing as releasing a game which demands strong PC specs and receiving acclaim at launch— most PC gamers don’t have the hardware to support many modern games running at 1440p 60fps as much as they like to deny this reality. That’s the reason so many great games like MHWilds, Dragon’s Dogma 2, first-party Sony, etc., have been torn to shreds by the Steam community at launch: They simply don’t have the hardware to match the software, and so, they blame the devs.

Not caring is a fine position, but it is a different position then claiming there isn't a quantifiable metric defining the best.  

Obviously theres a metric. We just reached a point thats insignificant enough to be making this something that will objectively mark if a version is worth it or not

I will have to disagree.  30 fps can go **** itself.  It is slow, lagging and inaccurate.