ElenaManettahpqoeuwow! i can't believe the tf2 team froze the tf2 codebase 14 years ago, no updates or added models whatsoever. sunshine? whats that bro, lets go play some goldrushWho defends Valve's known bad and bloated coding that gets so bad, modders have to fix it for them?
this has nothing to do with bad and bloated coding, the fact is the game runs on an engine first released in 2004, when people were still running pentium 4s or athlon 64s, with a single core. the engine has not been made modern to take full advantage of the processing power of new computers all the while the game has gotten significant amount of content added, some of which i imagine is very high poly count because it has been made in recent times.
nevermind the fact that sure, hardware has gotten faster, but ALL software has gotten more demanding, not just your 14 year old game. steam now basically has an embedded browser for the library and chat display. you just don't know what you're talking about