Why is ring so low quality?

I have 2 wired doorbells with perfect wifi connection and power supply. The quality of the image is embarrassing. Ridiculously grainy image, anything further than 40 ft away and people look like a ghost in the image. Motion detection is awful and the motion it does pick up starts recording 20-30 seconds after the event and despite my settings saying record for 120 seconds, it still stops after 30. Is this being purposely degraded to force the premium plan?