It can be pay to win and annoying to kingdom come with other methods maybe but I am pretty sure it will not look like cartoony crap.
I think you vastly overestimate the importance of an engine and underestimate the importance of actual hard work the artists, designers etc. have to put in regardless of the engine.
Obviously UE5(.1) is a massive leap forward, but the engine itself is not nearly as important as you (clearly, the amount of _completely_ offtopic mentions in your posts is insane) think. Crysis was way ahead of its time (also regarding hardware requirements, which might very well be an issue with those first UE5 games as well), nowadays it looks like crap (just ~2-3 years younger that it is, which _is_ impressive, don't get me wrong), whereas something like older Blizzard games still has endearing low-poly graphics that stood the test of time much better. In that sense, Fortnite might actually age well compared to other UE5 games (even though I really disliek the style).
Anyway, enough of this thread hijacking. Ignoring any UE5 posts from now on and back to the OP...
