Where's the lie? Zooming in in photo mode alters the state of the visuals of the assets, just like how zooming in on Rivet's tail brings in more fur. Everyone likes to bring up the fly that looks great when zoomed in in high detail. It's not at that level of detail outside of photo mode because the camera isn't as close. Same thing with cinematics.
....but the dev just said they arent switching assets....
Its not that its not that detailed, its that we cant see it because its so small. Yeah...when I zoom in and out you can see it getting clearer. Same thing happens in game tho, just not as pronounced.
I just loaded it back up now, and you can see it, just cant see it up close because its so small. You have to follow this tiny thing around, and hope you be in a spot that the camera gets close enough. The beginning of that planet is a good spot to check for this.
Also wanna say this is the first or one of the few PS5 games that skips the studio logo when starting the game. Miles is hot or miss, this has been really consistent so far.