I think its interesting that Apple release features which show their own older product in a bad light, compared to newer product. You think that a user-experience person would say "hmm.. lets de-tune the settings on the old GPU and hardware" but I guess in nudge theory terms, if you make the old box crawl but they are a fanboi, the outcome is they buy a new box.
I'm going home to de-tune my two old macs now. Thanks!