welp, was not expecting this tone from the game, it's kinda all over the place and feels so unnecessary... quite a wasted opportunity on an otherwise fantastic visual presentation.
Game runs amazingly well at everything maxed out. Silky smooth averaging about 80fps, over 100fps in interior locations. Another game that's going to be best played with mouse+kb.
Will put this on hold for an RT update, the world is clearly designed to look best with RT reflections.
Also, between this, Sackboy & Calisto (post patch), Hi-Fi Rush and Returnal, there really is no excuse for UE4 games (or UE5 for that matter) to have shader stutter.