I think the point is that these parameters you adjust are being rendered near real-time, whereas back in their days you’ll have to enter these values, and add custom tweaking because the hardware just wasn’t powerful enough to do the things we can do now at many times the speed. Not to mention the vast improvement in mileage for your time.
yeah, the "in real time" is what kills me. the old joke of blue bar races, rendering, buffering, and any of the other things us gray beards had to put up with is just unimaginable to the whippersnappers of today.
