Benchmarks should not be disconnected from actual games. If games don’t play in native resolution, then benchmarks should not be limited to native resolution. they should check both native and upscaled rendering, and rate the quality of the upscaling.

it’s not up to the EU to enforce it.

They just watched Avatar 2 and went with it.

i used to think like this. nowadays I prefer readability, and even debugability.

sure, I could inline that expression, but if I assign it to a constant with a descriptive name instead, the next person reading that piece of code will not hate me.

Why wouldn’t they? Their goal is to create a fair phone. Not a niche phone for a few geeks.