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You’re treating your personal impressions as if they’re hard evidence. Saying delays happen because “women and xirs” second-guess decisions isn’t an argument it’s just you filling in the blanks with the people you already dislike. Studios absolutely get bogged down by too many voices, too much debate, and too much committee-style decision making, but that comes from the culture and structure of the studio, not from one gender. If leadership lets junior staff constantly re-argue choices, that’s on leadership for not drawing lines or defining authority.

Pointing at small, mostly male indie teams and saying “see, they make the best stuff” ignores the real reason small teams move fast: fewer people, fewer meetings, fewer approval layers, no corporate legal team breathing down their neck, and no publisher micromanaging them. Big studios get slow because they’re bloated and risk-averse, not because they have women in the building.

If you want to call out AAA for being directionless, overmanaged, trend-chasing, and terrified of risk, I’m right there with you. But pinning the entire mess on a gender doesn’t actually explain anything it just feels satisfying if that was already your conclusion going in.