Hello I made a mistake and let my mind wander a bit, so I was thinking gee it's so convenient that some dev's these days have a shit code problem that's so bad it makes you need to buy better hardware. Then my next thought was what if thats the point? We've seen sites like pc gamer recommend parts. What if some studio's are getting kickbacks somehow. my thought process was that incompetence can't be the only reason for games running like they have 5 different copy's of denuvo sucking on them at some point things start looking deliberate like the pokemon company's latest fuck up.
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There's definitely been some evidence that kickbacks have lead to wildly different performance on either side of the Nvidia/Radeon divide before. But that was more likely more of a "here's a bag of cash, make sure you use all the optimisation options that benefit our hardware the most" kickback, not a "just fuck shit up fam" kickback.
General poor performance across the board definitely seems more likely to be due to incompetent/sloppy/rushed work than by design. I'm sure there's a good chunk of junior devs who get sucked into that hell-churn who only really have vaguest conception of the differing computing overheads to different ways of doing things.