We need to compromise as a player base

[Evergrey]

This is a weird one, I can't speak to different lighting or movement etc obviously but as presented in those two pictures the Dawntrail one is objectively worse graphically

I agree with that.
It feels to me that there are things missing in the Benchmark, like how the light and shadows work.
At least in CC.
I'm sure that if the light and shadows looked the same it would help improve with the overall visual of the new updates.