Is Epic doing anything to address UE4's crippling shader problem?

[anonymous_user_fbe2d247]

Just had a thought, that the single best addition to material editor at this point would be adding a Pass Switch material expression. It would allow you to have separate node networks for each pass, the material is rendered in. You can already have this behavior using custom node #if, but certain passes are inaccessible and some passes use simplified shaders, that do not rely on material code, (such as shadow depth rendering for solid objects without WPO, for example).

I would like this really much. Like planar reflection pass does not need that much detail. That is actually what Epic did at their Reflections realtime raytracing demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ue35ago3Y
This would also make planar reflections usable on mobile(clip plane is implemented with alpha testing.) and would help a lot in pc/consoles too. No need for paying clip plane cost for other passes than actual planar reflection rendering.