As others in this thread have already pointed out: look at Top Gun Maverick, or the latest Mission Impossible.
In the former case, they filmed jets and jet cockpits, but all of the jets and cockpits are replaced by CG ones, only the actors remain if they are visible.
In the latter, in the motorcycle chase scene and when Tom jumps over the edge, aside from him and the bike, basically everything else is digital, e.g. digital train, terrain, trees, ground and everything.
They jumped the train off a bridge FOR REAL at the end of the chase, but then paint it over completely with a digital train. The only thing that stayed is some water splashes, that’s it.
This is intentionally concealed by the studio marketing saying it “was practical”. Yes they did do it “for real”, but it erases the work done on all of the digital effects that end up making up the majority of what you see in the movie.
That’s just dishonest, and what people are upset about.
You are being needlessly harsh.
The action was real action with a real person interacting with a real object.
The things that moved really moved. The static background that no one touches is less useful as a practical object, because it doesn't get uncanny valley.
Practical effect doesn't mean the film looks the same as if you were standing there live.
A practical effect is still full of weird equipment and often done using miniatures and foam replicas of the fictional object.
In the former case, they filmed jets and jet cockpits, but all of the jets and cockpits are replaced by CG ones, only the actors remain if they are visible.
In the latter, in the motorcycle chase scene and when Tom jumps over the edge, aside from him and the bike, basically everything else is digital, e.g. digital train, terrain, trees, ground and everything.
They jumped the train off a bridge FOR REAL at the end of the chase, but then paint it over completely with a digital train. The only thing that stayed is some water splashes, that’s it.
This is intentionally concealed by the studio marketing saying it “was practical”. Yes they did do it “for real”, but it erases the work done on all of the digital effects that end up making up the majority of what you see in the movie.
That’s just dishonest, and what people are upset about.