This is why I like doing desktop dev (I imagine gamedev is simimlar). I grew up with turbopascal and similar. Doing desktop dev today is very similar. You have

This is why I like doing desktop dev (I imagine gamedev is simimlar). I grew up with turbopascal and similar. Doing desktop dev today is very similar. You have ONE repo. It has ONE tree of code, producing ONE project in ONE compilation. Your IDE has a play button which launches 100% of the product, on your local machine, in ONE process, exactly as it would work and look at the end user. Being able to break the entire process of the product and step, knowing that there isn't some other process somewhere else (a db, a web server) that keeps its own state is bliss. Highly recommended. Sure it's still lots of abstraction and you'll use a couple of frameworks. But a 10-20 year old framework in the desktop business is still a young one so there isn't that element of framework fatigue that you have in the web ecosystem.