rusty_shackleford That's some insanely dumb take, even for you.
You are just lumping everything together from normal patches that
always were a thing in gaming as the (technical!) complexity of games went up
a lot to stuff like live services like Destiny 2 that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
But you know what's funny?
I still agree that modern game devs are a lot lazier than they used to be.
But that's mostly because they want normal working hours, decent payment and some free time.
I rather have developers that are actually happy, healthy and have a life besides their work than the lifeless basement dwellers of the 90s slaving their souls away for a dream.
I'm glad, really, absolutely glad, that we have the current infrastructure that allows devs to just throw things out into EA and patching and hammering away at it until it is done.
Because if that was not the case, we wouldn't even have 10% of the games we have now. And those that we would have would all be different reskins of Call Of Duty and Mario 64...
You can still find more than enough indies doing the basement slaving thing out of their own free will and sometimes that does result in a gem.
And sometimes that results in the devs selling their house and producing a complete blunder that is vaguely cyberpunk themed...