>>715531175 (OP)>outsource and get bad unoptimized assets>no one optimizes, because someone will get to it later>team that was going to optimize gets laid off>by the time anyone could realize that something is wrong, the person who makes the judgement call is some "big number good" mouthbreather who okays a 500 GB game>even if by some miracle someone tries to optimize, they're an unskilled employee who has minimal experience with the whole of the project and is equally likely to fuck up as fix anythingBad standards, bad management, bad administration and bad communication, the hallmarks of MBA oriented management.