The thing is that the graphics don’t have to be complex or lifelike to be good. I’ve played a lot of video games that came out in the last 5 years that had simple graphic styles but they worked because they had a unifying vision that fit the games.

It’s the written content of GTA5 that makes it stand out, though.

Night in the Woods, Undertale, Tunic, Papers Please, Celeste, Hades..... There are plenty of games with rich stories and written content with far less than a GTA5 budget that didn't need to cut creative corners by polluting their games with digital asbestos.

Are you saying generative levels are evil? Nethack has them

you misunderstood them on purpose. just say you like ai and cut the crap