Well, that's simply how Shadows/Highlights operates - basically working as an edge detection filter, similarly to Unsharp Mask. Instead you need to use methods affecting all pixels the same : Levels, Brightness/Contrast, Curves, and so on.
You could (in theory) encode all your colours/gradients as a curve or 1dLUT , mark up the various different "material IDs" with vertex color and offset them with parameters on the material instance to index into the curve. bit of a waste of effort though imo :D
It's like asking why there's no good road PBR textures, water shaders have so many different requirements and needs and layers that no one size fits all solution is going to exist. Same with roads, terrain, grass, etc.
Also : "they were hired into art positions from QA because they happened to chat with a senior in the cafeteria" Well, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that *if* they demonstrated all the required skills.
I created this in UE5 the buildings were kitbashed from Kitbash3D but I created all my own textures for the windows and nearly everything else. I created all the gifs in UE5 as well as the signage, and so much more. took me about 2 weekends. The scene was based on a description from a book called "And Machines Shall…
for the tiling textures you likely want to combine it with using a splat map: Splat - polycount basically it is a master texture that controls where tiling textures go. If you overlay some textures on top of all of that it can look pretty convincing without a lot of work.
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