Around 2007 I believe the game industry came up with a semi standard way of building games that somehow alleviated a lot of issues in producing complex games...

Around 2007 I believe the game industry came up with a semi standard way of building games that somehow alleviated a lot of issues in producing complex games... aka spaghetti loops of hell. There are a few ECS approach and to this day it's still vague who does it best (depends on your goals). One I found interesting is the "sparse entity component system".