They really think the industry is in the shitter and that studios are being closed and developers being laid off left and right because Gamers are boycotting video games that have too many female/gay/black characters or not enough booba and because video game studios don't employ enough white dudes. I know they're terminally stupid and wilfully ignorant but the way Microsoft's shitty hiring practices have affected Halo are well documented and they have nothing to do with developers having blue hair or pronouns on their bio
THEY WILL FIND OUT THE HARD WAY
lmao
AAA studios used to compete on graphical fidelity, but once that got deep into diminishing returns, they started pivoting towards competing on budget and scope. That's why everything is an open world action-whatever with crafting and every mechanic anyone has ever heard of, because it allows enormous teams to put enormous amounts of shit into them and still have the game hold together, in a way that a linear first person with 1000 levels wouldn't.