I know where you're coming from. It's lazy programming in a lot of cases. Go back 10 or 15 years and programmers had very little power to work with, so they got around it with clever but simply ideas. Now it seems to be case of 'it'll do' and if a bit of code slows things down a bit it doesn't matter, the computer's got enough power.
They could've probably got Crysis running at huge fps at highish details on their minimum required system if they could be bothered...
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