Because the old guard has been slowly bleed out over the years. Ghostcrawler? Metzen? Tigole? Furor? Flynn? All gone. Not only gone but their memory poisoned by scandals so that you cant even recall their old game design when criticizing new one without having the usual "he was a <buzzword>-ist" thrown back to shutdown the conversation.

The new generation of devs are best described as a bunch of nihilistic, apathetic interns who seem to have a grudge towards the popular thing for being popular and made it their mission to subvert it so their creative visions get the proper recognition it always deserved.