I love Ron Gilbert's games, he's vastly experienced, and his association alone is sufficient to get me to buy any new adventure title; but I cannot understand w

I love Ron Gilbert's games, he's vastly experienced, and his association alone is sufficient to get me to buy any new adventure title; but I cannot understand why he thought it would be ok to use Deus ex machina¹ for the ending of Monkey Island 2 and the relatively recent Return to Monkey Island. Both of these endings are ruinous to the world he so carefully and beautifully imagined. I just can't grasp what message he was trying to send by trashing his own IP that way. I would honestly like to know. Is it like Notch with Minecraft? Were Monkey Island fans endlessly harassing him? The purpose of Return to Monkey Island seemed to be to address that awkward ending, and (spoiler alert) he doubled down. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina