>I rely on Unity, Adobe, Google, etc. to worry about those optimizations so I can stand on their shoulders and benefit.
It seems to me like they might be doing the same thing! For all the supposedly smart people they hire, TBH I can't think of a single product that feels fast/performant to me.
Ultimately that's a subjective call. If I had to write the Unity Editor and enable it to hit the targets they do - man I don't even know where to start. Seems like voodoo to me, personally I'm extremely impressed but I admit it might just be my lack of knowledge of what's possible now (last time I did low-level graphics stuff was amateur mucking around with mode 13h and SDL)
