There's undoubtedly a flood of trash. But lower barriers to building games isn't making the game industry worse. Somewhat strained metaphor here, but think of

There's undoubtedly a flood of trash. But lower barriers to building games isn't making the game industry worse. Somewhat strained metaphor here, but think of energy. Cheap power generation helped the Industrial Revolution along and caused a ton of awful, smoke belching factories to pop up, and a lot of people hated that. But cheap electricity is also the bedrock of every innovation since (including the type HN likes). Easier accessibility to whatever resource always generates crap, but that crap always contains a percentage of treasure. And there's a lot of really, really good stuff hidden away on Steam that wouldn't exist without the easier tools we have today.