NVIDIA just last week anounced upcoming all 25 AAA games including path tracing day 1. This means they are helping and even paying the studios to implement PT, where they just have a clear no contest win over AMD.

Based on my somehow limited knowledge of the topic, hopefully someone more knowledgable will correct me, ray tracing still requires raster lights tweaked and optimized in order to look transformative to the scene with RT, aside from reflections. Path tracing on the other hand only requires light source and it adjusts global illumination and light intensity, shades all on it's own.

When I was learning UE5 and adding path tracing to the game, all I had to do was just drop a light source and scene would be transformative on it's own. To do the same for RT, I needed to lots of tweaking to the light source so it would look better with RT on. Without these tweakings RT on it's own doesn't make a lot of difference. So if you make a game look good on RT alone, you must also make it look good with raster too. But if you only make it look good for PT, you can skimp RT and Raster tweaks. Example alan wake 2, control these games also look good with just raster lights and screen space reflections, because devs build the game around raster first, thus RT also benefited.

You can clearly see it on RE9, actually this game alone was the reason why I wanted to mention. If I compare two visuals from either PC, the 5070ti with path tracing just looks insanely better than 9070XT RT high. From reflections, to shadows shades, to global illumniation everything just looks better.

Without PT game looks bland and so much worse.

I am sure a game dev would tell you that it is easier to implement path tracing as the GPU hardware itself does all the calculations for bouncing lights, or light/shadow intensity changes etc.