IMO I feel like a large contributing factor of the issue is that when gamers realized that developers could now change things in game through updates or patches, too many of them stopped trying to improve as a gamer and instead switched to crying and complaining to the developer to just make it easier for them. Games in general feel like they're just they're shifting further down the road to being dumbed down to the point of making the slowest person feel good about themselves at the expense of everyone else. And many of the ones that didn't need the game simplified are turning into the gamer equivalent of those people on the spaceship in Wall-e...