I keep coming across it with new titles these days and it's not a hardware problem as douchebags will inevitably claim. How many times have you guys found a title you think "Okay, maybe I'll give that a chance" you install it and after awhile of playing there's an instant CTD.
Or as is often the case because big game studios insist vomiting high polygon count everywhere the FPS is atrocious even on high end machines because they don't understand that the majority of people don't have 4090 gtx cards and 8k monitors. There's all kinds of basic stability shit going on that makes me feel like I'm looking through someone's alpha project they've barely started debugging yet and it pisses me off. It's no surprise that 2D games are regularly hitting the charts because I wonder if it's people getting sick of all this and defaulting to 2D games because they can't trust a 3D game to run properly.
My standards are so fucking low in a game now the first thing I have to ask is, will it run? And will it crash? If the answer is yes to either of those things then you just immediately move on. Game devs seriously need to learn to stop the fucking polygon vomit. I mean Cities Skylines 2 is a great example of this and it's interesting how pissed off gamers are getting with these titles nowadays.
Edit: Oh yeah I can't forget game breaking bugs in the pathfinding AI etc. that quite a few devs are guilty of. You often have to dig through forum posts to find out about those.
Starfield: The models are detailed, but whether it can get FPS depends on what you're looking at. They don't appear to have much of a mechanism for simplifying far-away objects, at least that I can tell. So if you actually try to look at the panoramas that the game generously sets up for you, it goes all slow.
On my 3080 laptop, there are games I can run in 4k/60 fps. I wouldn't say it's most of them, but it can be done. Starfield I'm running at 60% resolution, less then 2K, so it's already getting a break.
And for laptops, not being able to do real 4K has been the situation for years. i remember trying to play Total War on a 1080 SLI, struggling, switching to 2K. Every GPU since has been advertised as 4k-capable. And they're not, really.