Flappy Pannus
Veteran
I checked, and it appears to not be true. Tessellation still has strangely bad performance in the Realm between Realms as of this patch.
The one thing that is true though is that the new patch fixes portal transitions to no longer show the texture and model LOD popping.
My presumption from the video is then confirmed: the portals showing bad LOD popping had nothing to do with magical SSD speed, rather all to do with some oversight in the porting process.
Could be CPU/GPU specific at this point perhaps? Their video shows a massive bump (whether this means the quality of tessellation has improved to where it at least matches the PS5 in this region is another matter though):