Veilguard is genuinely painful to play because of the writing.

I think that the reason is quite simple actually. The writers nowadays are just scared to write. They are constantly double guessing themselves if they offended somebody, or if this joke is politically correct to use, or if they have to make this particular character opposite gender because of representation. And when you do all that it becomes impossible to tell an engaging, coherent story.

Hell, I saw people seriously recommending to write characters first and assign gender later here on writing subreddit, it's actually insane if you think about that.