Shaded view looks better than rendered! How far are we away from the "render" option being redundant...?
In my opinion it shouldn’t be about looking better, but about being more accurate. The shaded view is fine for previz, the renders should be a more or less “what you see is what you get”-approach. Like DIALux for architectural lighting.
I fully agree, however in my opinion the shaded view image above looks much closer to the the “reality photo” than the rendered image.