The way I see it is like these companies are like vampires, they get a taste of blood and its a feeding frenzy, no matter who or what is involved.
Sadly no one votes with their wallets and we accept new bs, seemingly every new generation. Whether it be new ways to segment games from on platform another. Release unfinished games, carrot-dangling content via DLC's or mtx's or find more/other nefarious ways of squeezing more money out of consumers. While other forms of media evolve, like film and music games just seem to be regressing in terms of how and what these companies offer. I mean we don't even get complete games out of the game most of the time.
Heck even Valve isn't out of the woods with them not caring for making games anymore other than support their GaaS games and selling hats on TF2 and skins in CS. I guess that's the state of the industry these days despite these companies getting record sales and revenue (largely in part to Covid). It kinda reminds me of the scummy things that Nvidia and AMD are doing in the GPU market, because they can get away with it.
