One right-wing conspiracy theory about Kotaku, Polygon, and other mainstream games journalism outlets is that they're staffed by writers who don't enjoy playing

One right-wing conspiracy theory about Kotaku, Polygon, and other mainstream games journalism outlets is that they're staffed by writers who don't enjoy playing games and don't particularly like the medium, because the endgame these young writers have set for themselves is not to be game journalists, but to be journalists for grown-up publications like the Times, the Post, the New Yorker, etc. and writing about gaming is just a way to get their foot in the door of the industry and build up a CV. But of course there are only so many jobs at major nationwide general-interest publications, so these game pub writers become a toxic seething brew of frustration that their careers aren't going where they'd like mixed with signalling the right virtues to the grown-up papers and magazines to increase their chances of getting a spot -- which leads to angry articles that problematize everything.