Runs great on Series X, game hasn't crashed or hard crashed once, whereas CoD hard crashed for me multiple times.
It's a shitty and tough situation regardless. Shitty for base console owners that got hyped for the game, tough situation for CDPR as they needed to sell a lot of copies to make back money they poured into the game.
In hindsight, they needed to downgrade the base console versions by quite a bit for performance reasons. Or their engine did not scale well for their ambitions.
That's where Rockstar and arguably Ubisoft have them beat, efficiency and performance with the game engines they use. RDR2 looking as good as it does and rarely having performance issues on base consoles is a technical feat that's pretty miraculous.