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It wasn’t pulled from Wikipedia, I am an engineering manager and thus I spend a lot of time defining technical stuff for non tech people of varying aptitudes.

But I guess you’re right, NY train of thought was that people tend to equate game engine with look and feel, while most of it is not that.

An engine is the collection of core runtime features on top of which gameplay features and assets are put on.

A 4K texture pack and a few particle effects aren’t an engine update, it used to be available through mods.

What an engine update would be for example is seamless interior cell loading, or seamless high density cell loading for example.

Or better texture streaming, so on. A better engine would mean same exact screenshots, but more FPS and less loading screens.

Either somewhere on the far left, and we’ll see some actual breakthrough with major impact in the future which actually gets hyped, or on the far right and it already happened, it was just too niche for anyone other than a specific small group to notice.