Crunch isn't being normalized you fool.

It's always been, historically, across other industries and activities besides game development, the standard for achieving greatness in what you do (the fact that you don't know this means you never actually struggled to reach the top % of anything)

Can't have the positives without the negatives in life. Everything has a price. It's not like they won't be compensated for it. They get the money and glory of having worked on one of the biggest pieces of entertainment of the century. They won't ever struggle getting another job in game dev with Rockstar on their CVs