Hard to say, games have bigger budget when they are sold on several platforms, increasing the quality of the game in most cases, this is the good thing there's no denying it.
Flipside is that the multiplat games are designed to please all platforms, generally making them a bit more casual oriented than pure pc games, this can be a good or bad thing.
Then there's the claim that consoles cause the downgrades of games, I highly doubt this is the case in most cases as the games are pretty much made to run on budget pc builds anyway.
For me the biggest downside of the whole shebang is the goddamn User Interfaces on these multiplat games. It feels like the game dev is literally non stop smacking you in the face with his D every time you open your inventory or use any of the ui components pretty much. If the ui's were made with mouse+kb in mind they would be 10x more accessible. And I generally find menus pain to use with controller, heck even when I was playing witcher 3 with controller I'd always have kb+mouse nearby for when ever I had to open map/look something in the inventory.
TLDR: Dont think they hurt more than they help, EXCEPT DEVS PLEASE GIVE PROPER MOUSE+KB UI IN YOUR MULTIPLATS.
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