I posted a few earlier in the thread. There's sometimes a lack of even stuff like AO in the GI representation. It's especially stark in the interiors (which often even miss direct occlusion/shadowing), but it shows up in the exteriors as well.Can you show the screenshots of this inconsistency? The game looks damn near perfect in the jungle.
That said, I'm all for Avatar getting put as #1, specifically for the achievement of how it looks at its performance level on consoles as Oliver called out. I just don't think it is really doing anything mind-blowing in the lighting department when it scales up on a high end PC. I believe folks when they say that there's raytraced GI here, but I still maintain that I would not be able to guess that based on the visuals alone.
It seems like overall a lot of this discussion is becoming more subjective over time, which is probably to be expected. As technology removes more of the obvious visual limitations people's impressions of artistic choices start to dominate the conversation more. Two people looking at the same two games can have wildly different impressions and preferences now. I think that's fine and obviously makes for good conversation as long as folks remain civil and aware of the base subjectivity. Arguably though it might mean stuff like numbered best of lists lose a bit of utility going forward, but I know they are important for the youtube algorithm and functionally if they just bring up a bag of different things to talk about that's fine too.