>>714655501All the senior devs moved on. Bean counters think 'resources' are equal and didn't hire experienced developers to replace them.
All the passion and experimentation was removed in favour of dragging tickets in Jira.
The hiring bar was lowered and salaries didn't keep up.
DEI 'game designers' started getting hired a bit into KF2's development.
And last but not least, Tripwire was always kind of shit, riding other people's coattails and getting heavily carried by a select few people who are no longer there.