The update is ok. Stuff like terrain blending looks bad and the random environment things, like rocks falling, do break the immersion because they repeat in the same places.
The games been riding the line of too many changes the last couple years and losing the uniqueness that makes it great.
It's a show piece. No one expects it to sell for that much but it gets eyeballs on the store.
How this stuff makes for "news" is beyond me...