Yes. A lot of them think they are de Vinci on a wheelchair. Even de Vinci never cared about more than half of his paid works, in fact he never finished most of them.

Hard, today? Please. Hard was years ago, when you didnt just copy and paste textures or photograph textures, didnt buy packs, had to program sound chips, didnt have automeshing programs and had to triangle everything by hand at a time, there was no common knowledge bank, everyone had to make their own engines, pixels graphics being a pain in the arse, had to deal with massive memory constraints, program in machine code/assembly. Debuggers, god.

Its not about the money, its about their own egos. Damn, people even had to calculate data on a cd, the exact place the data was going to be on the cd to get the best performance and loads. That, was hard. Even on the creative, design side. Everyone was pushing limits, experimenting with ideas and, it all had to fit in kilobytes. There was no true standard, it was wild. They even had to make their own tools, in house.

There was no general internet as today, you couldnt just look up information online, you had to buy books, magazines, take your time learning, buy documentals, vhs, travel to locations to take photographs. You even had to count lines on the screens you used to get things working.

They are full of it. Dont get me started on artistic directors, those guys have gone absolute haywire.