Why do texture artists always get shafted?

Quote from RD

Maybe it has to do with them having to texture entire cities

Quoted for truth. You can't make the best textures in the world for every object and absolutely every object in the game, all the time when you have a tight schedule. I don't know about Rockstar's schedules but ours at Ubi are pretty tight so there's not always time...

Then again, the whole game looks kinda crappy visually sooo yeeeeeeah.

But my point remains. And I don't care about graphics when the gameplay is awesome,...as is the case with GTA:SA

GTA:SA doesnt look bad. Actually quite impressive and clean, mostly thanks to the draw distance. But the textures do their job