I've noticed a prevailing narrative (mostly observed on Reddit) that DLSS 5 "rewrites" artistic intent, painting NVIDIA as sort of carelessly slopifying games without any care for aesthetic in the sole pursuit of selling more AI. I don't really see any confirmation of that on the technical side, and personally I agree with you, I think the results look completely fine, but I guess there's no accounting for taste.

Part of me wants to just chalk it up to general AI backlash, but it also feels like there's a bit more there that I can't quite put my finger on. Gamers just generally being a contentious and picky demographic? I'm not sure.