Yup agreed in general.
Best unreal engine version is 4.27, after that all gone to “bad, stinky place”.
Currently Unreal becomes less and less a GAME engine
and more and more INVESTORS BAIT BUZZWORDS engine
Game engine should be able to run decently on decent settings on average PC.
and current state of Unreal is that, you have (just examples, list is much much longer):
- open world
- nanite
- mega lights
- mass entity
- dinosaurs with lolzors and jetpacks
and the kicker is that from this all awesomeness YOU CAN HAVE ONLY ONE of those!