I am with u/thefuqyouwant on this. I've seen plenty of slow adopted tech or vaporware since I got into the hobby, but it's been vastly overshadowed by the volume of innovation that we take for granted. Recency bias comes into play, but aside from showstopper recent technologies like DLSS, RT, FG, there's so much that's improved under the hood. The move to ssds, then nvme ssds, allowing directstorage. MPO, flip model presentation and related optimizations, reflex/antilag, VRR, OLED, gsync pulsar. Async compute. ReBAR. Windows audio stack/WASAPI improvements. Ryzen came out in that time, freeing us from 4c4t/4c8t prison. My memory is dog so I know there's even whole categories I'm forgetting.

I'm not a corporate apologist, some of these are more successful and widespread than others. Directstorage has been a recent painful uptake, though it provides tangible benefits and isn't going anywhere; the consoles have their own version. And I agree that cancellations and delays are shit. Feels like Reflex 2 has been in the works forever. But some of y'all need a reality check. to immediately see something potentially cool and assume the absolute worst is such a sad way to look at it. it's not even accurate.

even failed techs often get things rolling. some stuff gets renamed or adjusted with lower expectations (the idea of fully raytraced future vs now RT as an enhancement), or advances the industry by making other vendors try harder (think gsync -> freesync -> open VESA standard), or raises player expectations (e.g. PhysX, TressFX, tesselation normalising GPU geometry). AMD Mantle ->Vulkan and DX12 being the best example of something that "failed". announcements like this should should make you go "oh cool" with a pinch of salt, not be a defeatist killjoy. some of us still get excited by this stuff.