The performance increase is eaten by scene complexity. This is and has been the norm since the advent if CGI in blockbuster movies, in the 1970's. For every o

The performance increase is eaten by scene complexity. This is and has been the norm since the advent if CGI in blockbuster movies, in the 1970's. For every order of magnitude that hardware gets faster (and/or software gets 'better', i.e. using better parallelization etc.), image complexity in your average shot increases by an order of magnitude. So yes, what artists are doing is more complex but relatively so. I.e. it doesn't invalidate anything I and others wrote about the case in point – the Moana asset, how such assets are built and what part of a VFX pipeline reasonably ingests them.