Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price...
I can't say one or the other globally. It is very much game dependent for me. There are open worlds that are just wonderful and it's joy to play them and there are others whose world is empty and useless and that sucks.
One of the best executed open wolrds is old Gothic IMO (Gothic 2 is great too). Sure it's probably ugly and bland by today standards, but the world is absolutely amazing. It's completely open from the start, but player is so weak it is probably good idea to play semi-linear at the beginning. But nothing (except for tough enemies) stops you from exploring whatever and whenever you want. And there are tons and tons of things to explore. Hidden cave with loot? Shortcut connecting two roads? Place with very rare alchemy ingredient at the end of narrow valley? Shadowbeast lair? There is so much love put in there I still have cravings to play it even though it's like quarter of century old game... Quite the same can be said for e.g. Morrowind which is another absolute gem from early 2000s.
But there are also open world games where open world either simply sucks or serves no purpose. I'd have to think about which games fall in there, because once it's like this I tend to uninstall and forget the title...
You mean consistent like: "Ah, you still on windows 'add version here'? Too bad, user experience/security/consistency/modern standards are our top priority so you have to have windows 'add version here +1' to be able to run our awesome app xyz"... Much better, right?
Meanwhile the fastest charger in my city is ~50kW and is often out of order, so you have to go even slower because most others are 25kW... And it's not better anywhere near, half hour drive gets me to no better chargers. This lack of infrastructre where I live is one of the reasons I still don't have bev (also price).
Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:
Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it's not evwn funny
Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it's still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
I was looking at simple 2 bay home NAS and Synology was - quite logically - one of the contenders. Now I'm glad I ordered differently. Went with Asustor AS5402, which might be not as polished package as a Synology option, but they're very open about it and say it's just regular PC so you can instal e.g. TrueNAS if you want. This openness convinced me.
Do you feel problems in gaming? Does the card really overheat? Probably not, so here's my simple solution: Don't fix what isn't broken. :-)