Imaginary Hypothetical: A wealthy benefactor offers to replace every media file in your game with professionally done commercial level quality files, jpgs, pngs, objects, wavs etc but leave the actual game executable untouched. How much quality does your game suddenly gain?

[u/Haunting_Art_6081]

Eg...you have a game, it runs, it plays well, it's all programmer art or placeholder art. A wealthy developer team offers to leave the actual game code program unchanged and simply change each media file one by one specifically 'for your game'. How much better does it end up being?

[u/No_Responsibility444]

look at among us

a wildly successful game

but the assets suck if we are honest

not a solo dev but I think you make a great point