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From anything important made before like 2018.
New great games do come out, and you can't enjoy many of them on a 660. Also, graphics does matter to many players, as it helps with immersion.
Sure, there are plenty of gems that your 660 will run just fine, but there are plenty others it will not. And unless retro games are your vibe, you'll always be severely limited by hardware.
Then you can't frame it in the same light as "you'll own nothing and be happy", which refers to rent seeking on essential resources.
If you choose to set the bar for "immersive" at the level where high end GPUs are required, that's on you and you're the one enshittifying yourself. More to the point you're just obediently setting your standards exactly where the industry wants them, so that they can extract maximum value from you.
Why you would make such a choice escapes me, but it's not an unfair situation by any means. You can remove your hand from the fire at any moment.
At that rate, we can say computer gaming overall is not essential, so I'd be liberated to touch grass or something.
It's important, though, and it gets shittier by the day. That's reason enough to be concerned. Previously, I could afford building a gaming PC and playing modern games all I like. Now that time has passed and my income has grown, outpacing inflation, I cannot afford it anymore.
I can stream these games, though...and you see where I'm going with this. It's the very same kind of enshittification, and simply ignoring a giant chunk of modern gaming landscape to establish my power through keeping the old hardware is not helpful. I like modern gaming, I could always afford it, and now I don't.