How to say you know nothing about game development without saying you know nothing about game (software) development. But want to assert your opinion on it regardless.
It’s corporate profiteering not lazy devs. The devs work their asses off, these aren’t their decisions to make.
It’s like blaming the guy finishing the drywall for design problems with the building. Lazy drywallers, ruining a good office tower, it wouldn’t be leaning if they weren’t so lazy.
That’s… Largely a financials problem.
Steam: $8-10 billion/y
GOG: $80-120 million/y
Steam can throw 10 GOGs worth of resources at a problem and barely break a sweat. Yeah, of course they are making huge strides, that’s how consolidation of wealth works when that wealth is actually reinvested.