At this point, I truly wonder why anybody would seek employment in the game industry (and many other tech sectors as well). I’d completely written off most of that throughout the years when I was trying to re-train in a different field.

It is. They’re being pedantic. It’s a complete made up term within the last few years to describe anything getting shittier for the benefit of shareholders. Applying it to a specific thing and saying it can’t be used to describe what this article is talking about is silly.

“Enshittification.” It’s called enshittification, Kenji.