Do you ever feel like Kojima just hit it big because he was one of the first pioneers in the stealth genre and games with lots of cutscenes and high production values, and that he's just been coasting off that for like 20 years at this point? And we just have to treat him as an auteur because most other people in his position moved up to producer/exec level and had other directors take over?

Like Miyamoto had enough sense to just find people already experienced with making films and amusement parks to let them handle Mario and Zelda's multimedia expansion. If he was going around hiring Pedro Pascal to voice and mocap Mario in the games proper we'd correctly think of him as insane.