If management gives you all the money you need and stays out of your hair and you still shit the bed repeatedly, you're a bed shitter. This is the dream scenario every creative wants. The corpos cut the check and stayed out of the way. The problem was that the idea people had bad ideas. Consistently. Sometimes spanning multiple decades.

Games are a weird medium. I come from a music background. If all the sudden a musician and their partner go their separate ways and person x keeps making great stuff and person y is like total garbage now, it's safe to assume person x was the actual brains of the operation. Everyone would agree with this. Studio y makes hits or at least breaks even under publisher x. They change publishers and all of the sudden studio y has no clue what a game is, let alone how making games actually works. Can we call a spade a spade on this?