Totally agree there. I don't remember the last game I played without some form of it and that's why I put so much hope in A.I. game development, but of course it will be marred by monetization. Society doesn't make cures, it makes money off of treatments and this philosophy is destroying the world and unfortunately game worlds in the process.
You're putting your hope in...AI game development? Do you even understand how LLMs work? All they do is copy what others have done. AI game development is destined to make things
worse not better, by sacrificing creativity for statistically profitable game mechanics. You think season passes are bad now, wait until LLMs do the digital equivalent of throwing darts at a board. An "AI" would never have come up with Cult of the Lamb or Dave the Diver. LLMs would look at the most common, most generic elements of games and reproduce them. Everything we complain about being too samey in games? That's what LLMs are learning from.
I know I'm getting worked up here. The excitement over replacing human ingenuity with glorified plagiarism really pisses me off. The ONLY benefit I see to LLMs in game development is helping devs debug code and alleviate repetitive work during crunch.