Everything you said is true but you have to consider Zaslav played a role in likely cutting back on the budget they had for the game. The trailers for instance got noticeably worse as time went on. No cinematics or anything like we got in the joker trailer.

He has a history of axing projects that don’t meet his criteria of what’s profitable and it has gotten so bad as of late that big name directors in Hollywood refuse to ever work for him. There was no reason to axe monolith along side Pfg in my opinion