I have been running this thing called "Reshade" which just has a bunch of extended graphical options.

Some options include DPX, clarity, HDR, MXAO, and others.
Makes the game look 10x better..

Now if there were extended options in the game config that would do the same thing without the post-render app (and likely to better effect) than that would be a step in the right direction..

We won't ever get HD textures, because they already mentioned this. It would mean having to redesign all the textures in the game which would just be far too much work.
(Why they didn't design them in HD to begin with and just lower the quality is beyond me but it's SE we are talking about here).