This is such an annoyingly simplistic take and such poison. Some of the things this guy says are outright nasty: like should you want to make your game to have

This is such an annoyingly simplistic take and such poison. Some of the things this guy says are outright nasty: like should you want to make your game to have only 10 people play it. Absolutely, yes. And if that detracts you, then maybe you don’t actually want to be making them. Games, like film, like music and like all the other storytelling mediums are a form of literature. It is completely normal and has always been like this when it came to distribution - everybody wants to tell stories, but only a select few do it so well that they get to do it for a living. And only a few (usually big, industrialized) efforts take 90% of the market. In my company we make simulation systems for teaching a complex medical skill. If the small local game dev industry/community did not exist we wouldn’t either. The awesome talent that is developed and flows out of games is extremely valuable. The tools and methods that come from gamedev are awesome too and drive innovation themselves. Gamedev delivers value, even when it’s not immediately obvious. I myself wanted to make films and went to film school as a young man. But I have since pivoted towards becoming a PM (and I still use video in my work). Film school, with a focus on film production was the best practical education in management. I would never tell anyone that there are “too many movies made, you shouldn’t make more”. Also this person talks about “solving the problem”. The problem doesn’t need solving, the market for these things readjusts and emerges accordingly. And it always has. “We” are not “teaching” young people to do anything, they do the things themselves and making them allows them to grow and develop.