Well yes and no. If general tone of most discussions is just critical, overall mood is crappy to be polite. If you are in crowd of complainers, even if they keep saying its constructive, its a properly depressing place to be. Life is not just numbers, points, striving for perfection. What makes us humans is much, much more.

This short video looks amazing, specifically because its not state of the art in engine work and current level of tech. Yet you feel like you are there, on one of the canals. Many games these days use better meshes and have higher count of triangles and other techniques yet they don't deliver these emotions to those who visited Amsterdam.

And games were, are and always will be about emotions.