It's very frustrating when you see people with the same specs citing a "locked 30 everywhere including villages." There's pretty much nothing else I could do in order to improve my performance, and drops to 15-20 FPS are still pretty common.
Yeah, no-one is getting that. My guess is some people are judging based on the opening of the game which runs pretty smoothly, or just guessing without using Afterburner or another program to monitor their framerate. The start of the game and most of the time out in the open-world my framerate is around 25-30fps, but as soon as I get into a town or village(or even some random locations) my fps drops to 20 and will wildly fluctuate between 20-30fps but mostly sits around 20fps. The lowest I see it go is around ~18fps. The absolute only place I can get a "locked 30fps" is in shrines. I still think it's perfectly playable, even with the random crashes and 0.1 fps bug. I played for 5 hours yesterday, and encountered the camera lock bug about 4 times in one of the Divine Beasts, and one CTD at the end. Of course other times I can crash 3 times in 20 minutes but I have had a few good 4-5 hour sessions with no CTD's.
Specs etc:
6700K @ 4.2ghz/stock
980 Ti
16gb 2800mhz DDR4
SSD
Cemu 1.7.4c
Cemu hook 0.4.0.1
9k shader cache
4K Graphic pack/AA removal/High Res shadows
Various tweaks from the Reddit threads
I'm 30+ hours in so far and I've uncovered all the areas directly east and south of the starting location(about 6-7 regions), so I've seen a fair bit of the game so far.