The more powerful computers we have at our disposal could've been used to make all sorts of really cool simulationist and crunchy RPG systems. Instead, we got "realistic" graphics, bloom, and particle effects, while making sure the RPG systems could be processed by a TI-85.
100% !!
My dream-RPG would be something like a single-player game in Ultima 6/7 graphics in which one started as a low peasant. And said peasant could spend the rest of his life planting cabbages and wheat or instead go on a life of adventure and rise to be a king or even rule an empire. Meanwhile the character would be able to start a family, have kids (his kids would inherit his genetic traits and some of his stats) and would continue the game after the original character died. Meanwhile the open game world would evolve and have its own dynamic (generate orc invasions, zombie plagues, conspiracies from other kingdoms, plagues, etc etc) and the game would give the option to raise armies and wage war or manage the kingdom like a city-builder.
Thus: imagine a mix between Ultima 7 + Crusader Kings + Total War.
This - of course - would only be possible in an alternate dimension where gamers choose world complexity instead of fancy graphics. Instead we have games where the main character explores a desolate landscape, interacting with freaks and degenerates and killing other freaks, degenerates and abominations by slashing/grinding/rolling around.
RPGs used to be some sort of escapism and are now turning into parodies of real life.