I don't disagree with this, and moreover, I would argue that substandard product is still the same evidence of the effects of inflation. The only way around the effects of inflation is to have the largest corporations built the cheapest possible product at the largest possible scale.

Fundamentally, I still think these companies need to lower the size of the product (shrinkflation), but I don't think that's a problem because of the bloat that is already in games.