So I feel like they wanted to make the meat of this update up scaling, and the variable shading thing looks cool, I might check that out so I'm already undermining my own meme lol. To me it seems like upscaling was supposed to be the meat of this with the other things being a footnote, at least that's how I see it. And I don't wanna come off as "hurr durr fake frames bad". I feel like upscaling has it's place, and even tho it's slightly different but I feel it's the same conpept, is frame generation. Like I used lossless scaling on my previous 30something GPU laptop for cyberpunk to get smoother frames, but would turn it off when using the computer in game because of a weird artifact when using the stockmarket mod.
Tho the one thing i dont like is IMO upscaling and framegen should be used to elevate low/mid end hardware, hell even highend hardware if you want MORE. But I see it here as being used as a bandaid for poor performance, rather than using this tech to get a better image and stuff