Live service killed gaming as we knew it. That games are worse sucks for people like me, but it doesn't matter: the majority of people are fine with modern gaming, and the cost-profit ratio is just so much, that there is no reason for things to change.
Unless the AI future overwhelms and destroys the normies appeal toward tech, and they go back outside and go back to clubs and bowling and shit, then things are just going to get worse and we really will live in the pods with everything just being more and more service based digital shit.