Correct analysis – which shouldn’t surprise anyone. Explanation: (a) We don’t be

Correct analysis – which shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Explanation:
(a) We don’t believe or trust publishers any longer due to malincentives. So we prefer testimony from high trust sources – individuals. This shift has been going on since the mid-00’s.
(b) We don’t believe or trust management teams which have interests of their own (malincentives) instead of interests of their customers (gamers).
(c) Which is an extension of why we don’t trust government, academy, or media for the same reasons.
(d) Publishers, management, media, academy, and government all suffer from the same weakness: they are more afraid of ‘the hostile commentariat’ (marxist-sequence, feminist sequence, woke movement) that obtains attention by claiming moral outrage despite being a tiny minority of the population contributing nothing to the society, polity, or economy and blaming others for their failures.

Who are your customers? The agitants who seek attention through criticism, or the people who pay for your products, services, and information?

Hugs all. 😉
CD