I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're playing on a pretty good PC and didn't play at launch.
I played on a PS4 and it crashed every 10 mins and looked like crap even PC players had numerous bugs for the first 2 months (and still do).
Even now playing the PS4 version on a PS5, yes the graphics look better and less 'blurry' but at the cost of almost no population in the city. Traffic has been cut back by 80% and roads are deserted.
I don't think the response from gamers was exaggerated at all. CDPR went out of their way to hide the performance of the game before launch on console & PC so any backlash they invited willingly.
Even when they FINALLY drop the next gen update I highly doubt I'll bother. I've written it off as a bad investment and moved on.
Plus £5 says it'll be broken anyway