60 hz has always been the bare minimum any display supports, so if any game is picking something below that then something has gone horribly wrong. But really, games should be using the current desktop refresh rate as the default, because you know it's supported and makes things like alt+tabbing considerably faster even in exclusive fullscreen.
Reading Reddit and going down to 1080p mediumish with depth of field turned off and it's fine, 30fps. It's a very fun game!
I have absolutely no idea why they didn't turn the defaults down. It would have been a 5 min config change surely and the impressions of the game would have been vastly vastly better.
It does look terrible for me though, despite being fun. The shadows are terrible and there are loads of rendering glitches.
I'm also a bit concerned now my city is getting bigger at how poor the traffic wayfinding is. Seems to be as dumb as CS1 (with no mods) which is really bad, with the added nuisance that the traffic cycle seems to be basically 0 cars until rush hour then a massive flood of traffic.
It's actually quite ironic that all I really wanted from CS was faster performance in bigger cities (huge fail from CS2 here), better traffic simulation (jury is out but isn't looking great) and better road tools (this is what cs2 is great at).
Well thats very subjective, as I usually can't stand TAA and like SMAA.