DIdn't ND say that they had to throw out pretty much everything she did?
I'm honestly curious to see exactly how much work she puts in as a creative director working 80 hour work weeks.

I meant in terms of announcing and releasing.  (It was brilliantly done, difference of like six months?)

Basically do the opposite of Square Enix in terms of announcing and releasing titles. 

Games are taking longer and longer to make, while technology is improving faster than the average consumer can keep up with.

Upon reading this, can you imagine being a cog in a machine releasing one of these huge games? You spend well over 40 hours a week on it, the game goes gold, but you gotta keep working on that day one patch. Game releases, and there's a good chance people shit on this thing you've spent thousands of hours building; and what if it flops? That's gotta be a gigantic hit to the morale. And yet you may still be required to keep working on further patches...

Yes, but obviously it would have been better if it was delayed for a month or two(?) to fix everything. I think releasing a game in such a state is 10 times worse than a delay.

The way is either make the development time larger, the teams larger or scope lower... all three would mean less money, so unless you convince the whole team to earn less or the mother company to make less money (none of those would happen) them it will keep the same.

That is different argument, but I truthfully believe you will never have bethesda game with 99% glitch free experience without the audience pointing it out the glitches, no matter the time. 

(I need to word the sentence better, but what I mean to say is you will never have bethesda game glitch free)

I doubt devs get much of a say about release dates when they have publishers breathing down their necks to acheive unrealistic timelines. Not all those people working 80+ hour weeks get a say in that release date, either.

The industry has gotten pretty vile and it's sad to hear that even Naughty Dog is not immune to the dark side of AAA development. I wish people would excercise a bit more patience and understanding for the sake of these individuals. No amount of gamer rage is worth the health, happiness, and family lives of these devs.

Interesting article thanks for sharing.

and people bitch about sony delays

This may be one reason why most AAA games are so unoriginal and derivative.
People need balance and some relax, otherwise they can't think straight.
I also can imagine taking risks and doing something that might not work may not be appealing when you already don't have time to meet deadlines.