Do you guys think that the game industry will eventually accept that the "modern audience" is actually 0.1% of the audience and that tailoring games for them is alienating the 99.9%?
Art—music, movies, games—has suffered badly in the past 10-15 years. AI, DEI, and especially "the final boss of acronyms", plus corporate accountants and marketing teams, now control what gets made and what messages get pushed, often supporting divisive agendas and mentally ill ideologies.
Disagree publicly, and you risk being "canceled" or worse. Not following agendas gets you ostracized or cuts your funding, which is the reason why so much art ended up promoting agendas and ideologies that had nothing to do with the thing they were making and in opposition to the values of the vast majority of their audience. Instead of art that inspires and heals, we're fed propaganda that wrecks our mental health and indoctrinates our kids. Beauty is shunned, healthy relationships and family values are ignored and the minority is painted as vast majority for the sake of "inclusivity and acceptance".
While there is room for all the diversity in existence and I strongly believe that it's possible to make art that portraits life in different places with the uniqueness of every culture, minority and sexual orientation by making different projects for different target audiences, I believe that forcing this stuff down our throats in every single game, movie and tv show to the extent of a complete removal of normality, only pushes people like me, who never cared about what skin color or sexual orientation you have, to become fed up and retaliate, creating more division instead of acceptance.
Now it shows in the numbers. People are not digesting your content anymore. Games and movies that focus on agendas are DOA and some people still wonder why. A few more failed projects and accountants will figure out that this is not profitable and maybe we will get back to games and movies that are focusing on cool stories and fun mechanics rather than ideologies that don't align with their audience.