Still waiting for that one to rebound. The vast majority of game developers seem to be just remaking old games with new "content" in tired old genres.

Oh another game where you bleep an angry creature til they bloop and you get a point. Great. Oh, I can upgrade my bleeper? Wow.

I think it's because the industry attracts people who are, for whatever reason, avoiding meatspace activities. They get immersed in game industry memes and then that's all they know. I see a game about farming and it's like... Do you even understand what farming is like or why it's fun? But they don't... They just re-make MineCraft with farming graphics because they don't actually go out into the world and, like, farm. Do stuff. Understand what the world is like. Because the people who like the world never left it, never escaped to video games.

At this point I don't even play games any more, I just watch YouTube reviews of them and spend my time designing games on my own.

I think it's a huge missed opportunity though, and when people realize it there will be a gold rush on games that are actually about something.