That’s exactly why people are upset about these. Because 5 year old GPUs are perfectly fine today and still will be fine for 2-3 years as long as your demand is not that high. The hardware built into GTX 1080 still is capable of handling modern AAA games at playable framerates easily. This is the reason a lot of people are upset when a new game is not optimized for older hardware. I get it is old and all but despite all that it is still a working perfectly fine for everything else other than that unoptimized game…

People have good reason to get upset about it. Not everyone wants or have the capability to update their PC every few years. And companies asking people to update the hardware for a problem they themselves created is pretty stupid.

Because unlike 20 years ago 5 year old hardware are not outdated. 5 Year old hardware are more than capable enough to do almost everything a PC needs to do. 20 years ago a 5 year gap in hardware means 1000+% improvement. Now 5 year gap hardly gives 100% improvement but costs 1000 dollars more.