Small studios benefit from escaping the eye of sauron that is DEI. You can have a small studio of entirely white/Asian male devs who are not controlled by HR. So every dollar spent goes to a highly productive gamer who generates real value for the company. There isn't a state-mandated legion of diversity hires and female administrators siphoning off every other dollar in order to make sure the product is worse.
Small studios, by sheer volume of attempts and varying interests, make more fun games today than big studios.
Plenty of crap too. Then again, big studios produce mostly crap too. Except big studios crap costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
Let the big studios die under the weight of their bloated structures.
Small studios benefit from escaping the eye of sauron that is DEI. You can have a small studio of entirely white/Asian male devs who are not controlled by HR. So every dollar spent goes to a highly productive gamer who generates real value for the company. There isn't a state-mandated legion of diversity hires and female administrators siphoning off every other dollar in order to make sure the product is worse.