See this is what I don't get.
If, as Sony intimates, this mid gen refresh is to prop up console performance against the ever increasing performance of PC hardware, do these half steps really change that in any dramatic way?
The money spent in R&D, manufacturing, shipping, promoting and supporting these new "Pro" versions that only a small percentage of the player base will purchase, and possibly pushing the release of entirely new consoles out by another year or two, mean that PC hardware and PC performance will continue to outpace consoles anyway.
The people who care about that and jumped ship last gen, will either not come back or jump ship again in the end.
Seems weird to me to go to these lengths for the continued support of a super niche group of console gamers that basically wants their console gaming to be more like PC gaming, except not PC gaming.