Optimization stalled because before this everyone kept buying better gpus every 3-5 years.

Now that people can't keep doing that, new games have to be at least as well optimized as "last gen" games to look "newer".

So yeah, most people aren't going to need to update for a while.

Especially since new DLSS is just an AI slop filter no one wants, because the only way to get usable frame rates with it, is to have 3/4s of your frames be AI hallucinations.

People are just turning all that off and achieving the same frame rates without the slip filter.

I switched from a 3080FE to a 9070XT (largely because I’m predominantly running Bazzite now, and AMD is less annoying as a gaming gpu on Linux - not to mention, I try to avoid giving NVDA business on new cards these days). Works like a charm.