Also, having played hundreds of hours of their games, I would be content with the older game engine as long as there was a good story line, and decent mechanics ( not related to the op topic).

They can make bad games with this engine, for sure , but I do not want them switch out to photo realism to paint over problems .

It seems to my old self that games would be better if they were a bit ugly, and dangly, to not hide behind all that newness and flashy stuff