It's not the people that work in the industry that I'm annoyed with, it's the people running the game dev cos. And to a lesser extent the "startups" that are al

It's not the people that work in the industry that I'm annoyed with, it's the people running the game dev cos. And to a lesser extent the "startups" that are also poorly ran and exploitative. It's this same late stage capitalism BS where some people are successful doing X, where X also involved working obscene hours, not planning things out the way they would have to in a large company, and doing other things that are either "trailblazing" or "cutting corners" depending on your perspective. And they get lucky and make a ton of cash. And so a ton of other people try and follow this path, but the only lessosn they seemed to learn was "working long hours is awesome" and "you don't need to pay people fair wages, just let passion (and/or stock options) motivate them". And people who would have made a decent living 20 years ago doing something boring are conned into it because it seems like the only path left for them.