I never got the sense or arrogance you claim to see in OP. He tells us that with a game looking like it was made for the PS1, he expected his gpu to handle it better. Honestly, I can't really blame him for that.
However, you bring up an interesting point, pointing that we do not know his other components and those might not fall into the recommended category. This is now a better argument, however it is highly unlikely that with a gpu that came out in 2019, he has gear that's from further beyond the past. For anything stated in the recommended field, I assume it is able to run the game at 60-75 fps on 1440p.