Textures that you don’t have access to because they are all locked behind micro transactions, but one whale is going to buy them all so your machine has to be able to render them all.

7.25 / 0.25 is indeed 29, therefore a 2800% increase is correct.

Thus, another dishonest way of stating this number is that it has increased almost 33% for each year since it was first implemented. (Not per year)