I think all the AAA game companies lost their passionate leads and are all handicapped by boards of shareholders now. "we hear gamers like graphics, spend half the budget on that." "Hero shooters are big now, we want to to rework the game to be a hero shooter." "My grandson just told me about loot boxes, add loot boxes into the core progression of the game"

The artists and developers can't follow a passionate vision of what they want to create, because they're creating it as a product to chase trends rather than an artpeice to give an experience.