Forza was the best looking 1st party game they showed and it didn't do them any favors to show "in engine" footage before the actual gameplay, you could see it was lower quality by quite a bit and that didn't have to happen.
They are still hiding Halo, even the gameplay said "in engine" so it was likely being prettied up a bit compared to true gameplay and it didn't even say running on series x, it still has a generic holiday release time frame too.
Calling that footage of Starfield "gameplay" is hilarious, it was all a cinematic, most everything that showed actual gameplay was indie or AA at best other than Battlefield which I thought was underwhelming, it looks like it's going to be really hard to see the other players and I hated the look of that Neon city at night with the dust storm, that's going to be a s*** map to play on for visibility.
The Ascent is timed exclusive like I thought but still one of the more interesting looking games they have and I'm really looking forward to it, was nice to see the release date for the Diablo 2 remake as well.