As a bit of an experiment, I went back to a few screenshots I had from “back in the day” (all from August and early September last year) and tried to recreate them now. Not always easy due to weather conditions, but here’s a few. No mods on these, and all settings 200 LOD on both sliders and ultra everything.
Near Halifax airport (Canada)
Hamilton, USA
Kankakee, USA
Washingston DC
Havana, Cuba
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
Can you tell which is which?
First one in each pair is from Aug/Sep 2020, second one is today.
There are differences - some in the close up tree coverage, but tree distance drawing is better now than it was.