I agree with you but both things can still be true. Devs should NOT release a game in a worse state than PS5 but that doesn't preclude the possibility that the Pro just may not be up to the task (on a hardware level) of being able to run these problematic games well. And by "well" I mean significantly improved over the base PS5 ...so in the case of AW2/sh2/outlaws/and avatar that would mean solving the shimmering/aliasing mess and improving some aspect of the visuals on top of that! It has improved AW2 and Jedi Survivors visuals i will concede that (hasn't improved SW Outlaws or Avatar). However, its not running these games well enough to give us good IQ still (though I think Jedis IQ is good at 30 fps).
There's a very good chance though that if the Pro had a better GPU and could start adding PSSR to a higher base resolution, that alone would've been enough to solve the IQ issues ...then the question becomes why didn't Sony do it and is it even reasonable to expect a better GPU at the pricepoint it has? I think it is reasonable given how expensive it is. I think Sony has handled this console terribly on multiple levels and one area is hardware itself. Their cost cutting measures and stinginess can be seen all over this console, like not including the disc drive, not offering 4:4:4 Chroma, they didn't expand the VRR window ...all of these things were in Sony's power to do. Oh and the CPU being a measly 10% clock boost.
At what point can we say it's the hardware and Sony's fault instead of blaming devs for not producing better looking updates? We're not swing the 45% faster target being met, we're not seeing the 2-3x ray tracing target being met, yes PSSR will improve with time but how long will it take and by how much? The argument of "bad patches/bad devs" seems like a red herring from people holding onto the hope that the Pro is as good as Sony said it would be, when the evidence leans more towards the alternative ..that it it's worse than we thought.
Believe me I'm not happy to be saying any of this shit and would love nothing more than to be proven wrong. I have all my eggs in the Pro basket which is probably why I'm more outspoken and negative than 95% of people who bought the thing, but I'm not going to pretend things are OK, because for me they're not and this is among the biggest disappointments I've ever had with the hobby.