Complaining about a downgrade isn't forcing anyone to give the game up either.
It'd be nice if people stopped defending Ubisoft for this though (omg i know massive is making this) as we've seen it all before haven't we. No doubt the PC version will look like a much better version of what we're currently being shown and not what the game was originally advertised as, which itself is kinda the problem. Faux gameplay heavily dolled up with extra animation, lighting, debris and texture detail vanishing. People have been waiting years to see extra footage from the game and now we finally do it doesn't look like what we were originally shown so we should just shuffle along?
What?
Who waited years to show extra footage? The game has been shown in some form at almost every major game conference the past 3 years. Multiple vid docs, it was playable at tons of shows, it had an alpha, and has a beta coming up. They have let youtubers have extended time with the game so there are literally hours and hours of footage and impressions readily available.
Massive and Ubi have been pretty damned transparent about this games development. ANY game shown while in development for 3 whole years is going to go through a ton of changes. Game development is a very dynamic process.
All in all the game looks pretty damned close to the reveal, even on Xbox One. Volumetric smoke, lit particles, bokeh DoF, car door shutting cover mechanics, holographic hud, dynamic weather and shaders, screen space reflections, etc etc etc is all still present.
Some things remain in the air, like the Global Illumination system, the fidelity of the destruction system, tessellation, etc. However, the PC version is said to look great, and may indeed have these features present in some form.
I find it a little ridiculous that you can entire opinion of a game on a 3 year old 6 minute video of a work in progress when they have given you so much more incite the entire development process.
It would be one thing if that 6 minute announcement trailer was ALL they showed, then you bought the game, popped the disc in, and OMG it was downgraded. But if that happens now, you're willfully ignorant.