I don’t know why you are being down voted as that is their business plan, they hope PC gamers will think “oh I should get a PS for those other exclusives”.

I just don’t think most PC users will bother, ans this is probably why Sony are stopping releasing to PC as it’s not bringing as many people into the eco system as they hoped, if anything it may be having opposite effect.

A lot of the buyers on the PC won’t have a PlayStation so as long as it cost them less than 300 million to create the ports etc then it’s still a profitable endeavour for them.

In some games it’s super obvious that it’s doing upscaling and looks awful, some games with without upscaling look awful (TAA), it’s odd that in some cases tools like Dlss can look better than native TAA.

For the most part though it feels like the FLAC vs Opus or whatever, most people can’t notice difference and don’t care enough about it, but some people can tell the difference and want the best, I don’t think either are wrong it’s just down to how much you notice/can tolerate before it’s annoying.

It’s a personal preference but I would take occasional smearing over janky frame rate, I don’t know why but if you are not a solid 60,90,120 it just feels really like there is a stutter every second or two even though it should be fine if it’s above 60fps.

For some games I’m happy to turn it on as it drops power/temps and provides virtually identical output (as far as i can tell anyway) to native, but my fans don’t need to go into overdrive mode.

I may even put on frame gen too if I just want to bump a stable-ish 80-90fps to stable 120fps, and again drops power and temps slightly. That sometimes does cause smearing but for the most part I don’t notice enough to be annoyed. Without them I would probably be running with more power draw and higher temps, and possibly still not even hitting lower resolutions at 120, some games as you say though can hit 120 no problem even without and the gpu won’t be stressed.

I often wonder if Hideo Kojima is actually a time traveller as it feels like we are living through the MGS series. With AI and government propaganda and control measures it feels like we are at the MGS2 phase