It definitely didn't sound serious to me. But the trader's accent isn't that fake British anymore if that's what your referring to. Honestly that got old after the first couple of games for me. But the game will have mod support, so I would be surprised if someone didn't mod the old VO back in.
But that doesn't really make sense. Motion blur makes the image look worse not better. Well, worse to me I will say. The downgrade comparison I saw showed a complete removal of parallax occlusion which has nothing to do with motion blur.
Funny how that COD "No Russian" mission was so controversial and now there's a whole game devoted to that exact same scenario called Hatred. Wonder how long that game will be in the media for?
That's like asking would you rather have all games even first party just on PC and never have to buy another console again, or keep wasting money on a new console every gen.