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The people interested in making games, aren't interested in making games. The pay is shit, the hours are bad, and the chance for breakout success on your own to avoid those issues is vanishingly small. You can make more money doing just about anything else in the same field but outside the AAA game industry.
It isn't actually that easy to make a good game, the netcode alone is a nightmare for most multiplayer games (except for CS!). It seems like it should be easy, it ain't, and you'll make a more as a quant (even rhymes!) if you like that sort of thing.
It is a culture thing, but probably not in the way you imagined when typing up this "enshitification" post. More like we get Zuckerberg's instead of John von Neumann's because that is what we incentivise. I think you already know this, because you're a programmer? Maybe? I can't recall and your account is private.
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