It's not made up, but keep carrying the water. People have posted those exerts years ago which was mainly in the great massive "next gen" tech thread. If I have free time, I will try and do some digging, you are free to do so as well.
It was with early on games.
Just like mid-gen refreshes are now not so exciting and concerning, since one brand is PRing they may not be doing one. They gushed over that brand's mid-gen last gen. And the "concern" for devs, but not the same concern back when the X/S was announced? They specifically said "scaling should be simple." What changed?