I feel like this is grasping at straws? Plenty of unorthodox games go mainstream. Can’t expect consumer hardware to the stay the same forever. This game is just poorly optimized.
I think I'm giving people the opposite impression that I intended.
Well-compensated people (like engineers) are more likely to own a 4K monitor and high-end GPU, so I meant to convey that there's probably a large overlap with the type of people who play city builders (like engineers), so they really should have accounted for that.
It was only after I bought my 4K 120Hz OLED that I found out how popular they are for sims, including pinball. It's been awesome.
A bit unfair since most people aren't gaming at 4K (Steam hardware survey puts it at 3.29%), but still