The job market is such that we’re too busy fighting over scrap metal and food like it’s the aftermath of an apocalypse. We don’t time for fucking game development
The entire genre of RPGs exists because of geek-ass weirdos on American mainframes in the late 1970s. I got nerd-sniped wondering what could’ve come out on Channel F, and every trope was established and waiting before literally the first proper games console.