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Yes it is relative as people adjust but everyone has their own reaction to the the effect, some stronger than others, and it is real. My only objection is that when you use terms like moving the goal posts you make people that are truly bothered by it sound as if they just have a grudge and are...
No, but the PS2/3 is not over 100 years old ;) The same generation of people have gone through the timeline from the PS2 until now so that you can ask the same people where in the valley they are.
edit: you could certainly test the same people based on before and after pure raster until now.
But the effect does get worse the closer you get to the real thing until you get out of the valley and to the real thing. So right now you would be deeper in the valley than during the PS2 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley#/media/File:Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg