The difference between modern gaming and the past is that in the 90s some guy with a PC/Amiga/PC-98 was writing his own games and got a few bros together to make a game that would kick ass.
In the 2020s it's hustle culture (think asset flippers, third world app store devs, etc.), that guy who really badly wants to work at some AAA dev or Nintendo to the point of living in his car to be an underpaid tester, and subversives who only want in to "change the industry" as they were instructed to by college and Twitter.com.
