I've been happily playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my MacBook at 1920x1200 resolution with most settings maxed out. It hasn't sucked. In fact, it's been pretty smooth.
I would argue the iPhone and iPad together are probably one of the biggest gaming markets on earth. There are after all 300M consoles and 900M iPhones out there.
I'm not saying it's good for games, but the iPhone's GPU blows a big ugly Switch or Steam Deck out of the water
I really wish the gaming space on phones weren't such a radioactive wasteland
That's true, but then you can't complain about Apple throwing their weight around either.