More like you realize :
1) Ubi sucks at optimizing their games. Especially considering their games hardly look incredible overall.
2) RT is a scam at this point. If we lose half the framerate for a slightly better puddle, what's the point ? (outside of selling overpriced Nvidia cards obviously, where it worked wonderfully)
RT is amazing. it's not about better looking puddles. it is about a stable image. screen space effects literally break apart if the conditions aren't 100% optimal, you get artifacts, obvious errors and constant breakup in ambient occlusion and reflections that can be really distracting and sometimes even look like outright graphical glitches.
on top of that RT can influence gameplay. you can use reflective surfaces as mirrors for example. older games even tried to do this in a very limited fassion (I hope this is now coming back in a big way) in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for example (at least on Xbox an PC) there were some real time reflections using render to texture reflections, and guards would spot you in reflections so you had to look out for them.
this was really limited back then because multiple render to texture reflections on screen at once would have been extremely taxing
I dont really keep exact track of all posts I see but you called one of my post console wars yesterday or so while I never really intended it to be and then I saw you the day after posting some really cringy console war rethoric.
I doubt that... often times what people call "console war rhetoric" is actually just someone keeping the record straight, which is really hard sometimes on this forum. as someone who owns every current and last gen system (among others) and has grudges with all of them and favorites from each manufacturer as well as systems of each that I don't like I will coitize them all and cheer all of them on from time to time, so in isolation that might also come across as console waring...
also my giant distaste for everything Naughty Dog stands for (their whole gamedesign philosophy is disgusting to me) will often be seen as that by Sony fanboys, even tho I hate 343i even more for fucking up Halo to an almost unsalvageable state.
a lot of people will only look at one post or one argument and then see it as something it isn't