I think we were all expecting them to rebuild the engine sometime between fallout 4 and now instead of just duct tapping a flashlight (new lighting system) to it.
It's such a bad engine the Phil Spencer came out and said every QA tester at Microsoft is working on Starfield:
2 hours max for a guaranteed refund, anything else (within 2 weeks) needs to be approved by a human to make sure you're not just beating the game and returning it after.
I'm pretty sure ~80% of people can't tell the difference between 1080i and 4k. They'd more likely complain about the color settings they set on their own TV than artifacting.
Further, we have no salt/sand trucks, we have no plows, we have zero civic infrastructure to meant to deal with our very occasional ice storm or light snow. It happens so infrequently that there's no way to justify spending taxpayers' money to prepare in that way for those kinds of situations.
I never understood the mentality of "it only happens every couple of years so we'll never prepare for it" It's not like Georgia is spending that money on other public services like railways
Rabies being the most common I think