Yes, eevee can look great with the right settings. I guess the devil in the detail is what we respectively mean by "great", and "better". Context is crucial:

Yes, eevee can look great with the right settings. I guess the devil in the detail is what we respectively mean by "great", and "better". Context is crucial: what you're trying to do, where you're doing it and with what constraints, etc. I guess I would just then reiterate the context of my original comment, which is that the creator of Blender and current foundation chairman is looking at UE's real-time render pipeline and coming away very impressed, even to the extent that he thinks it should influence the future direction of Blender's own real-time pipeline.