My point is about game development in general, not one exact game. The fact that in general, you make a trade-off between performance and features doesn't excus

My point is about game development in general, not one exact game. The fact that in general, you make a trade-off between performance and features doesn't excuse the fact that there are actually bad games made by bad developers out there - in fact, I usually work in legacy codebases and have seen many examples first-hand.