Never ceases to amaze me how amateurs can often do a far better job of these things than whole companies of professionals.

This is easily explained. As amateurs put their spare time into it and get no money in return, their gratification is gratitude and praise from others (externally) and the feeling to accomplished something (internal gratification). Both these gratifications increase with the amount of care put into work. For companies more care means more money they spend on the product (as they pay employees to put the care into it), so it is often enough cut. So the only thing limiting possible result of amateurs is skill and resources. There are very skilled people out there and working on software takes especially these days much less resources than say building a car.

Don't blame the professionals, they probably could do that, too. At least most of the time. Blame their managers who don't know a fuck about programming yet think they know better what to do and how to do it best. Of course the programmers have to follow those guidelines, even when they know they're misleaded.

Yeah... bringing old Doom to new systems would probably have been easier if not for the company mandate to have 2019 horrific always online DRM and online account rubbish injected into a game from 1993.

It must have been like trying to mix oil and water and sell the water as drinkable.... (okay.... just thinking that would almost be easyish to do since they wouldn't combine and the water should remain free of oil, but.... you get what I mean!)

And to add insult to injury, a game from 1993 that they didn't even make. This on top of all the other bullshit they've tried to pull in just the last year alone.

You can't spell Bethesda without EA is quickly becoming a meme on the internet (on top of all the other memes, LOL).

It just works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPN0qhSyWy8

Seriously, at that speed, EA will be able to say "at least we're not Bethesda" in a couple months time

Well, the managers are 'professionals' too, technically... :P

I would say they should've just given the whole trilogy to Panic Button, but they're already so ridiculously overworked (Doom 3 is their 3rd Switch port this year alone) I worry it would affect their work on Doom Eternal.

Physical copy.  I still win.

I'm assuming Beth still haven't sorted out the ports?, because they still haven't sorted out RAGE 2's CTD's on PC yet.

Yeah still no word from them, so it looks like 3 weeks on this issue still somehow hasn't been sorted.