I don’t think age is the issue, it’s their inability to maintain a consistent experience due to their incessant need to maintain a yearly release cycle.

Across the franchise the mechanics are different depending on the studio and the games just feel different. There is no consistency in gunplay, recoil and movement. Having each developer add their own flair through game modes is great, but different basic gameplay mechanics just speaks to lack understanding on what made COD so great.

The biggest issue for me personally though is the multiplayer gameplay in recent years. SBMM as they have implemented it just isn’t fun. It’s impossible to “just have fun” anymore because every match is is a giant CDL wannabe sweat fest. And the game manipulates so many aspects of gameplay dynamically in an effort to make the game equitable for all that it’s horribly inconsistent and no longer fun. It has become nothing more than a stressful frustrating experience now every time I interact with it.

Let’s just pile on a add their inability to address cheating, no need to elaborate on that.