My friend still brags to me about buying the newest top tier Ti graphics card every other year and his water cooling setup, while also saying he can't afford to move out of his parent's house at 30. I spent like $400 on my graphics card, which maxes out basically every game I play. You only need high specs for the very uninspired generic triple A games that get copy and pasted every year. I'm loving Balder's Gate 3 right now without a million dollar rig.
Just want to point out that Baldurs Gate is also a triple A game, they have 400+ people working on it. There are also many amazing triple A games out there, like Cyberpunk
Budget wise it is. There's definitely great triple A games that come out that are an exception from the Far Crys and Call of Dutys. I was at least able to beat Cyberpunk on my budget with medium settings. But as a consumer, stuff like ray tracing is just a gimmick that adds absolutely nothing for me lol. It's just something people use to justify outrageous purchases imo.
That wasn't cut content, the trigger for them was glitched so they didn't go off. This was addressed and fixed in like patch one or two, which was awhile ago.
To be fair if they were spending a little less on a less expensive graphics card they probably still couldn't afford to move out but they might have a bit of a nest egg to buy groceries or something in case shit gets even worse.