It worries me that some people aren't experiencing it because now I wonder whether this is the first sign that my Series X has a defect. My game ran fine when I first got it, and looked beautiful; now I get bad fps drops and an eventual hard crash (where the console turns off) after about 10 minutes of play. This is the only game where it happens, but I wonder if it's the only game that is taxing the console enough to make it happen (the only other "demanding" game I play right now is Valhalla, and that's fine).
Anyway, I don't mean to distract from the thread. To stay on topic, I think this kind of difference is more of what I expected, in terms of where each console has an advantage. Over time, I personally would like to see the Series X have a consistent advantage - not because I'm a fanboy, but because I just want a circumstance where both manufacturers bring something to the table and have more parity in terms of market share. I feel like a competitive environment, where MS is pressing Sony to stay on their toes and vice versa, is better than one in which Sony simply dominates the "hardcore" console space (and I would say the same of MS, but they're not even close to dominating). I may be misguided, but I just think competition is good, and MS was NOT very competitive in the prior generation.