I LOVE THIS ARTICLE.
I recently went through every point on this article when I purchased Gears of War 4.
I tend to play on consoles, but when PS4 / Xbox One came out, the specs were pathetic so I purchased a GTX 750 Ti for a spare PC with an i3-2120 and set it up as my gaming PC.
I know, not the greatest of specs. but it has been playing most games I care about at medium-high settings with decent FPS at 1600x900, which is still better than the console counterpart.
And then Gears of War 4 came out, and my CPU really bottle necked the game to the point it was unplayable.
From AVG 50 FPS in multiplayer at medium-high settings, it would drop to 4-5 FPS during heavy battle scenes (Horde Mode mainly).
So I went through point on the article, hoping to settle with "Eventually, you will play this game. Someday."
Then I thought, let me treat myself with a decent gaming PC!
GTX 1060 with an i7-6700 in a Silverstone ML08B-H.
Now I get a solid 60 FPS at a 2k resolution (2560x1440) on ULTRA settings.
The game really is well made, the i3 CPU really was bottle necking the game.
The real upsetting part of spending almost £800 on my new gaming rig, is was when I decided to upgrade my workstation with the now obsolete GTX 750 TI, my workstation has a Xeon-1230.
It runs Gears of War 4 at High settings with 45-60 FPS @1080p (1920x1080)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNl0pjA_LOc
Which isn't bad at all... making me regret my PC purchase, especially with VR around the corner, I now have a gaming PC which may not be as powerful as the Xbox Scorpio whenever it is released.