I had to enable it, and wasn't aware it was a thing until I went digging. That's the opposite of what you're saying lol.

No, Sony games come with two options: ray tracing, or high frame rate. You get one or the other, and ray tracing is on by default

This game isn't that fancy. Doesn't have ray tracing on this engine. And the big draw of the pro is it can usually do both.

As I said, they’re trying to justify the Pro and its ray tracing capabilities, so everything is on “Quality” mode by default. The problem is even the Pro can’t really do the ray tracing AND 120fps, so base PS5s gets the option of 120fps or slideshow.