>Programmers are nerds, they only play nerd games.
>Artists don't care about games, they care about being told what to think by YouTube video essays
>Marketing fags play what's the most popular.
>Writers don't even play games.

No one actually plays games, besides the IDEA GUY.
The IDEA GUY spends 100% of their time playing all kinds of games, because they actually care about games, they are the only people equipped to create a game because they have seen it all.
To be able to make a good game you are required to build on top of the shoulders of giants, of decades of innovation, not playing games or only playing a specific genre of games will lead to you making slop because you just don't know about how to improve or fix the mistakes that have already been made by countless other devs.

This is why the idea guy is a different class of dev.