[shynrou]

But that's kinda the point, when you are on a low to mid tier setup you now have to download 50GB of 4k textures you're never gonna see.

[kllrnohj]

For the steam deck valve added support for games to only include the relevant texture quality tier to save space. Hopefully that expands and rolls out more broadly, but it's also a bit awkward to specify your game quality settings before launching the game.

[genocidicbunny]

Both the current Xbox and PS generations support this in a way as well. The developers need to do some work to make use of the features, but they are available.

[falcolas]

Just get up close to a model, and you can still see the difference.

And there are YT videos that call developers out for mushy textures on every new game release.