It's 2017, Castlevania has broken the infamous "video game curse" for adaptations.
It's 2021, Arcane has broken the infamous "video game curse" for adaptations.
It's 2023, The Last of Us has broken the infamous "video game curse" for adaptations.
Crafting has had such a shitty impact on Destiny - the 'red boarder' grind, devaluing drops, less incentive to re-run raids, Adept weapons pointless, vaults full of red-boarder guns, etc. This should have been an *addition* to the game, not the new central focus point.