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I can see the point about DLC and selling incomplete games but not entirely about simplification. In some cases it's true but for instance recently I finally played through Medal of Honor Rising Sun (which is a PS2/Xbox game but if you're claiming simplification started after PS360 I imagine that's implying games continued getting more complex up to that point, which I also don't agree with and would say some of the more complex non-strategy games came out using pre-PS2 gen technology) and playing that game now was really surprising. The navigation doesn't rely on intrusive quest markers but at the same time, the number of enemies on screen was pitiful and you could stand out in the open and not be hit. And this wasn't on easy either. So in some ways some genres of games were simplified but you'd be hard pressed to find any modern FPS that feels as simple to play as Medal of Honor Rising Sun, and I imagine there were plenty of those kinds of games back then as well.
>no major platformers
Don't know what your idea of major is but did you play A Hat in Time? Or even Yooka-Laylee.