No, 30fps gaming very much isn't dead and is still the standard on consoles. It's not like devs target 60 and then add things until they bottom out at 30. The target frame rate on consoles is almost always 30 and they lower resolution and other graphical effects to hit 30. 30 is pretty much always guaranteed except for the usual genres like sports or fighting, otherwise, 60 is the added mode, no the other way around.
This is actually a great point.
People playing in 60fps/Performance modes on consoles are often doing so with a reasonably hefty hit to image quality, especially for any proper next gen titles. It's nice they have that option, but if they didn't, you know full well the standard release would still be 30fps with the higher image quality expected of 'next gen'(though I think ray tracing would be removed in plenty of instances when they offer such little visual benefit).
We also dont really know what people are choosing to play on average. The loud, vocal communities online may make it sound like 60fps is the preferred choice, but we also know perfectly well the online gaming community is not remotely representative of the average gamer. Either way, it says nothing about how well people would adapt to a game that's 30fps only, with no option to even know what 60fps would look/feel like in comparison. Perfectly fine in most instances, from my experience.
EDIT: I also want to point out that Steam Deck is a super popular device, where people are often only able to play heavier games at like 30-40fps. I think this proves that even PC gamers are fine with lower framerates when it comes down to it. We can like and prefer higher, but it's not essential to enjoy gaming at all.
I have a crazy idea guys... how about we just report both the horizontal *and* vertical resolution when it's not 16:9. Hell we could even report it when it is 16:9 for clarity!
I mean, stating the literal resolution is useful for some discussion, but I think most people think of resolution in a 'pixel density' sort of way, so I think it's perfectly reasonable to say something along the lines of "The Order is 1080p but with letterboxing". Sure, technically it's not 1080p and they actually save some rendering costs with this, but essentially, it's still the same image quality as 1080p which is what most people are concerned with.