>>968569
Basically everything that
>>968689
Said, but you've also got the competency crisis. The beancounters hire overseas fuck ups to do a job for peanuts and then they fuck it up. Then in the western offices, they don't want to pay anyone a living wage unless they're senior programmers. Thus you've got a cycle of unskilled laborers taking most of the jobs, and the few skilled ones unfucking their fuck ups, or just moving on to the next slop pile.
I got abuddy whose entire company exists because big fuckers like snoy and microsoft want to outsource, it doesn't work, and then they get them to clinch it to be usable in under a few months. Nobody knows how to do the tough work anymore, and if they do they're not hired, retired, or the two to thrree executive positions. Look at epic, they can't do anything anymore because they're spending all their money on outsourced labor and literal garbage content like tycoon maps instead of hiring actual programmers with that money, and their dept heads are 1/4ths competent vetereans and 3/4ths whackjob diversity hires.
This isn't just gaming though, it's happening in a lot of major fields and getting worse with AI vibe coding.