Why Cycles-X and not Eevee?

That does not really make sense to present things like that.
Any subject can be represented in any graphical style.

Currently, all of these are more accurate and more simple to set-up using Cycles.
So, quickest way to obtain an improvement is to make Cycles faster, period.

For vast majority of users, EEVEE is not capable to deliver same result as Cycles.
And independently of question of speed, it will take years to bring Cycles features missing in EEVEE, into EEVEE.
Cycles has been developed since a decade. And its use is still in phase with new hardware developments.
EEVEE is only 3 years old and does not have same amount of contributors, just because of its age.
And by its nature, presuming that, at some point, “it will be able to deliver same quality as Cycles, in future” is still science fiction.
If improving EEVEE’s indirect lighting had been an option for this year, there would have been a discussion.
But there are so much more basics to settle, first : that is not. Clément’s target, for this year, is Vulkan support.

So, any generalist user has interest to see Cycles improvement happening, this year.

Money does not have the super power to modify history. Money is NOT time.

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