Have video games gotten worse? Why I'm no longer a game developer...

Disclaimer! This is a generalization of patterns I've seen across many different organizations, from my own experience or firsthand experiences of friends/co-workers. I am not criticizing any specific projects, only summarizing big patterns of the last decade.

I have so many thoughts on this that it's hard to be cohesive without pre-writing a big "essay", but hopefully the big ideas got across. I can speak to specific ideas more in-depth if any stick out to folks.

Also, I teach my dog to bark less (kind of), and fail to focus the camera (give me at least, like, 8 uploads before I figure anything out lol).