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>"we're too cool for this" writing style
Unironically this is 100% the true answer right here. Once you begin to see modern shit writing from this perspective it all just clicks.
Somewhere along the line videogames became 'cool' and a bunch of boring ass morons filed in and started getting into the industry. But all the stuff actual nerd losers had built up before them was too 'lame' or 'sexist' or whatever new buzzword is made up. So everything they write is just ironic or subversive and it's so tiresome and not ever genuine.