What is new is that 80% of current gamers is playing on a GPU on par the with the highest end model of about 7 years ago. Moore’s law might not be dead, but at least is economically forgotten. So older games might have gotten over the performance bump in a year if two, now it’s more like seven. Paradox failed to correct for economics in this party.

(My 1060 6GB is still above average on userbenchmark.com. That a 2016 card and has never been top of the line.)