I appreciate where you are coming from, but I think you should reconsider. gamefreak continues to release games with substandard visuals and performance, but its reached a point where people don't find it acceptable anymore, as noted by these reviews. As pokemon fans, we should want more, the franchise deserves better. If you’re able to look past the graphical and performance issues than thats great. But if people outright ignore them, then gamefreak/nintendo will never have incentive to improve things.
When Legends Arceus came out and everyone was bashing the graphics I thought about this. My personal conclusion was that the graphics were fine for what they were and I think SV is the same (in fact, SV looks even better than Arceus). The games don't look amazing, no, but they do have a very strong art direction that holds everything together. If GF's art team wasn't so talented they would have a real problem.
Still, I can understand the complaints up until SwSh and also BDSP (which I also find ugly as sin exactly because it doesn't benefit from GFs great art direction, now
that's an ugly game) because they are very linear and unambitious games so they could look better for sure.
But when it comes to Legends and SV I feel like the visuals are honestly very reasonable all things considered. First of all, these games are open world on the Switch, that's not an easy thing to do. Aside from BotW, we don't have any open world games that look objectively better than SV I don't think. Some have different strengths, but it's not like SV are running leagues behind in everything, it's all arguable. We've just seen Sonic Frontiers and it looks bad. People often mention DQXI and I love that game but it had dramatic levels of pop in and looked extremely blurry, besides not being open world at all. Xenoblade isn't open world either and 2 had its fair share of technical problems.
But sure, even if you compare it directly with BotW and Xenoblade, you also have to consider that 1- these games had much longer dev cycles, 2- they are made by some of the best on the industry and it's not realistic to expect every other dev around to match their genius, 3- they both still have performance issues too. So, considering all these points, I think SV and PL look
fine. You won't find many games similar in scope and developed in a short time that look much better. They could absolutely be improved, but considering the scope of the games, the dev time and who is making them, I honestly think they look good, they could look better, but they don't look that terrible to warrant so much negativity imo.