Late 2010s - The death of realism in gaming

Between the mid 2000s to the mid 2010s, video games were obsessed with being gritty and realistic. Think Call of Duty and Battlefield. These games were praised at the time for their realism. However, over the course of the 2010s, a backlash started to form against these kinds of games. For the longest time however, if you weren't a fan of these sorts of games, your only options were either indie games, mobile games, or Nintendo games. Starting in 2016 however, you started to see the return of cartoonish games in triple-A titles. The first game that comes to mind is Overwatch. The game has cartoonish graphics inspired by 80s action cartoons. This is not the first hero shooter, or even first hero shooter with cartoonish graphics, that would go to Team Fortress 2, but Overwatch was really the start of the trend of cartoonish colorful graphics making a comeback in triple-A titles. That same year saw the start of Nintendo's comeback with the release of Pokemon Go. The following year, the Nintendo Switch would be released, featuring games like Super Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild. Both hugely successful and popular, they managed to impress people with their massive worlds mixed in with colorful graphics. It was like a modern version of late 90s games like Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. But the big shift happened in 2018. You see, in 2017, there were two competing battle royale games: PUBG and Fortnite. PUBG had gritty realistic graphics, like Call of Duty, whilst Fortnite was more cartoonish and colorful. The following year, we'd see the victor: Fortnite not only beat PUBG in popularity, but decisively too, becoming one of the biggest games of the entire decade. From there forward, we'd see even more cartoonish games gaining popularity like Among Us, Friday Night Funkin, Fall Guys, VR Chat, and Genshin Impact. It became clear after Fortnite blew up in popularity that gritty realistic styled video games that looked all washed out, as had been popular for a good chunk of the 2000s and most of the 2010s, were finally no longer the standard. This isn't to say they're dead, you still see games that had a gritty washed-out look to them, but they're no longer as big as they used to be.
But what do you think? Do you have any insight to add? Or do you disagree with my opinion?