>zoomer plays a real video game
>instantly filtered
>ugh, this needs a modern demake where everything is dumbed down, super easy and I always win, let me xit about it
>devs see all the xits
>hmm, there seems to be a demand for demakes where everything is dumbed down, super easy and player always wins
>make such a demake
>it's super popular with the zoomer because everything is dumbed down, super easy and xey always win
>devs see the profit
>make more demakes

How do we break this vicious cycle? Does voting with your wallet really work?

One of the chief reasons for the decline of gaming is graphics evolving to first semi- and, in recent years, borderline photorealistic levels, which prompted the cancerous trend of the "cinematic experience”. This formed a certain state of mind that games must be ashamed of being games and should be more like movies.

That in turn attracted a host of failed wannabe movie/tv writers to the medium. So we ended up with games that are shallow mechanically because they don't want to be games and written terribly because they adopted the shitty HBO/Netflix writing.