>>41374 (OP)The first step is recognizing and accepting the fact that practically everyone is a shill trying to sell you something, or a fanboy trying to get you to join his consumer whore religion.
Even the people who show you raw numbers will outright lie about what those number mean. Sometimes to protect their ego, sometimes to sell something, sometimes because that's effectively their religion that must be defended at all costs.
Nvidia is a good one to learn about the lies people will force feed you. They'll show you DLSS and various forms of upscaling, but their comparisons are to games with TAA on, which blurs the entire image as soon and you move in game anyway. And Nvidia gimmick image quality is still awful compared to just upping the resolution and disabling all forms of temporal anti-aliasing. You can play a 20 year old game that looks sharper than any game with all of the Nvidia gimmicks enabled. Nvidia's end goal is to lower quality standards and eventually force people into subscription cloud gaming because professional data center hardware is way more profitable than consumer hardware. Game companies are on board with this idea because it gives those megalomaniacs complete control over the games.
So don't feel pressured no matter what the mindless masses are saying. It's all mental illness and deception from evil people.