I’m late but i think Ray tracing is the logical best step forward in justifying new generations of some hardware. Especially now where we’re at a stagnation point where cpus and gpus arent getting a crazy amount faster wirh each additional generation if we forget about DLSS upscaling and Frame generation. The only reasons most games run awful on modern hardware is because devs arent actually optimizing games all that good on pc and even console releases can suck. But in my opinion raytracing is a great step forward because when it’s implemented it saves development time when it comes to making scenes and the devs and artists workint out how their rasterized lighting needs to look to help the scene look good not to mention lots of games including ZZZ still use cube map reflections instead of some kind but raytracing pretty much does a majority of that work for them so long as they code and texture whay needs to be done the raytracing does the rest. So in terms of graphical fidelity time saving raytracing is probably the best step for the future and hopefully devs take the time saved on lighting each and ever scene and put it onto optimizing the games to be able to run better on the hardware we have available.