BioWare is just lazy because this is a PC game. There is no reason to lock out certain features from the game because it hits performance. Some people have better PC's than others and they shouldn't 'suffer', for lack of a better word, because of it. It's the same with textures, people with truly high end machines should be able to experience extremly hi-res textures.
I don't care if it isn't high one the priority list, just announce 'We are currently working on higher resolution textures, but because of <Insert reason here> we won't do it immediatley. This including viewing distance, the distance at wich grass and objects appear on your screen all this kind of stuff.