It still is a fair point, but yes the game does appear to be poorly optimised.
That said they’ll always be the 8GB old hardware crowd that’ll waaah no matter how a game performs.
I mean one wouldn’t turn up to Santa Pod in a Ford Fiesta and expect a 9 second quarter mile time.
Right tool for the job and all that.
Whilst I have a 4090 in my main machine, I also have an ITX box which I take to LANs which has my old 3080 10GB in it and I'll be interested to see how that copes.