It's a huge issue, considering the game doesn't look like a revolution in graphics AND you're essentially playing it on a super-computer by 5-6 year old standards.

> I put 8 hours into Frostpunk before realizing I was limited to 30FPS.

Yes, and I have beaten games that rendered improperly at sub-30FPS as a kid, because the requirement was 16MB of VRAM, while my card only had 8. But that's just as irrelevant to the point being made.