While it's certainly *possible* there is some plot to make the PC version look worse....the simpler and more likely option is that they shipped a rushed, cut back, poorly optimised PC version because they ran out of time.
And that's why we don't buy from Ubisoft any more.
Nobody is a conspiracy nut here.
Nobody is saying they're trying to make PC looks worse than console.
But they definitely downgraded the settings and "hid" them as a modder activated them and create the sweetfx preset for it with results matching the E3 demo. - I then used them for my game, which made a whole load of a difference.
Look at the multi-platform mess Unity was which they're churning out year after year, Rogue is now upon us after only a few months!
Look at Far Cry 4, it's just a repeat of Far Cry 3!
They were revoking keys for whatever reason they want to throw at us.
I don't like Ubisoft as a Video Games Publisher any more.