New File System plugin; 3D image points; Usability improvements; Faster Text objects & more.
It is only a default setting, you can easily change it to your needs,
and IMO trying to get lots of 4K sprites to run on a phone from 2017 is not a default use case.
With phone resolutions ramping up, it‘s not uncommon. However, I have veery few actual 4k sprites but they have to be sharp enough so that the viewport resolution can be 4k and they have at least enough resolution to match the pixels. Also, on, for example a snapdragon 855 (soc from 3.5 years) I get a stable 90fps so it seems to be working out and I‘m hoping for some performance improvements with web
gpu as well. I thought, this was going to be the new baseline, if you can still disable it I‘m not bothered at all.