The performance has been pretty shocking at launch even with the latest patch. What’s even more shocking has been the super bad takes from the steam forum commentators such as:

• skylines 1 also launched poorly, it’s fine
• at 100k sims in skylines 1 you only used to get 30 FPS max so why are you complaining
• just drop your settings to low for everything it’s fine (and also it looks like shit)
• I’ve had no issues on MY computer, it’s perfectly smooth (it’s running at 15-25FPS)
• get better hardware (it runs poorly at 100k with a 13900k + 4090, upgrade to what, a supercomputer?)

I get that people invested want to bootlick their favorite company, but pushing out games that are clearly not finished isn’t great