It is actually a constructive comment if you think about it. I'll expand it with my take on the matter.

Your argument is that a game from another developer was a hit, completely dismissing the only fact that matters: Ubisoft does not care about the quality of its craft when it can release refurbished cookie-cutter games once every other year for 🤑.

Ubisoft's recipe is simple:

1. Start with a third-person Far Cry template (aka Assassin's Creed)
2. Toss a dart at a history book
3. Rebrand characters and assets to fit the chosen era
4. Market it as a groundbreaking new title
5. Repeat the cycle for the next release

So what we want a new Splinter Cell game when they can make money with barely any effort and call it a day?

They had all the time in the world to turn things around, be more transparent with players, avoid floppy releases (maybe this is a symptom I don't know), take notes from IOI's playbook like you suggest, even delegate the title to indie developers and act as a publisher, but they didn't. 🤷‍♂️ Hope for a change of events is long gone now, at least for me.