It was a tongue-in-cheek reply of course, but there's some truths to it. Just like 4K resolution doesn't make movies better, adding raytracing or fancy shadows

It was a tongue-in-cheek reply of course, but there's some truths to it. Just like 4K resolution doesn't make movies better, adding raytracing or fancy shadows doesn't turn a bad game into something that's more fun than, say the Super Mario Bros. (1985, 31KByte) on NES (2KB RAM) which sold 40 million copies. We need to question ourselves every now and then why we are adding things like cutting edge graphics to games (and adding complexity in general). Which is what this article is about.