Well, yes, very clearly it’s a “man on screen said it” situation, but it’s not like that’s new.

People who repeated “ground control to {insert name}” to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn’t believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It’s an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.

Your laptop uses an iGPU. The “i” stands for integrated, as it’s built into the same package as the CPU.

The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.

They’re saying that your situation is becoming increasingly common. People can do the gaming they want to without a dGPU more easily as time goes by.