I definitively agree with you. In favor of the article one could say: The initial statement was basically that something got successful by ignoring "conventiona

I definitively agree with you. In favor of the article one could say: The initial statement was basically that something got successful by ignoring "conventional trends of the genre" and the article is about Elden Ring. So the overall statement stays correct, but some context could (should?) have been provided, because things have been done before or originated somewhere else.