>>719882887
Its just bad leadership style overall. When you shut down any and all feedback in your own company, then your employees lose interest in your vision and only appear for paycheck. They will only do the absolute minimum required to not get fired and thats it.

The main reason why the new Act 4 and PoE 2 overall looks and sounds so amazing is that the devs and project leaders told the artists to just draw whatever they wanted as long as it fit the grimdark theme.