>>2190201 (OP)
Paradox had a golden age between HOI3 Darkest Hour, CK2, Vic2 and EU3.
Then we got EU4 which was not good, HOI4 which was not good.
Stellaris was soon after and it was not good.
Then we had years of DLC making CK2 great. EU4 reached its peak of life in and around 2017 where it was okay, not great.
HOI4 reached a peak around 2019ish before they implemented too many retarded systems and overhauled supply.
Stellaris had changed atleast five times into a completely different game at this point so its not really possible to say which version was good or bad. Most were bad. Stellaris never peaked.
Some time later we got CK3 which is still a downgrade from CK2 in some respects.
Then we got the Vic 3 announcement hopium and that begun the age of paraslop.
Millenia was a paraflop.
Vic3 was a paraflop.
Stellaris got slop dlc no one liked.
EU4 and HOI4 updates since 2019 have made them blatantly worse and less fun.
Power creep is crazy in EU4 and HOI4.
HOI4's focus tree gameloop has been completely overtuned.
I would really like to see paradogs release EU5 in a playable state but I expect a flop anyway.