...you have a serious case of denial, man.
No I merely gave the game a second shot. I was just as dissappointed and disgusted as you are when I first booted the thing up. I came here to bitch about it but noticed that someone had posted links to some tweaking resources. I went back and tweaked the game to my liking, then sat down and fully explored the level. At the end of that time I realized that there were certain design decisions that didn't appeal to me, namely hacking and universal ammo, but despite that the game was still awesome and still had the excellent gameplay the made the original such a classic. The more dev posts I read the more it becomes apparent that the game still has some tweaking left before shipping and that the low res texture issue will be ameliorated. The fact that the majority of the issues I had with the game dissappeared with a little tweaking leads me to believe that ISA will make those .ini edits the default for the shipping version, why would they leave problems in when all it takes is 5 minutes of tweaking?
Seriously dude, you haven't answered my question: how long did you play the demo and did you tweak it before hand?