I agree. As much as I love seeing technical advancements, I’d be more impressed with more immersive games as a whole. For example: being able to access every building in a city or object interactions that have more dimensions than “I press a button and every atm in this world spits out money”. Object have more than one way to interact with them and it would be cool if you could, for instance, navigate said atm’s menu, it declining your card, paying out money, etc.
I’ve never really heard people talk about that Mad Max game. It was one of the first games I played on my then fresh pc built and remember being quite impressed with the graphics. It was also quite a fun game!