It's kind of a general expectation that a new console isn't going to be anywhere near its full potential for a while after launch.
Although this "tools" thing does seem to get overused a bit.
Agreed...
but the thing is that that applies to all platforms, not just the XSX.
The way I see it, is that no platform is its best right now, but the PS5 is in a better state than the Xbox consoles. That whole give the tools time argument is the most stupid thing I have been hearing of late, it's not false, but it's blatantly ignorant in how it's used. How the games run today, next month, 3 months from now... should be simply taken at face value. As opposed to this proposed theoretical tools improvements that would no doubt make everything better on the Xbox platforms "one day"...
If right now, it's the XSX performing better.. would anyone be talking about tools?
Both platform's tools would get better, devs would get better at utilizing each platform's strengths as time progresses. This is why I said that the main takeaway from this new patch is that we can see how devs could maintain parity between the two consoles regardless of who is the better performer.