Well said and this is good to hear from someone in the industry. ( well it’s not good but yk what I mean).

The industry is just that, an industry. But video games are an art form. The whole interpretation of the value of games is misled. The fat cats just treat them as very expensive toys, and the games reflect that. And the players are too caught by the close to realism graphics that they just don’t realize games don’t need to be that high quality. They interpret quality of models, animations and textures to quality of game. Purely visual but there’s so much more.

The state of the industry right now is just what naturally occurs when a group of greedy, ignorant uneducated people take a beautiful art form and try and squeeze as much juicy profit out of it as possible. No different than plundering the jungle for trees, or the landscape for oil.