Difference is it was JUST a coat of paint, an asthetic that was still backed up by gameplay, writing and environmental design.

Nowadays, it's THE focus and everything else has been put as secondary. Maybe we can argue slippery slope but honestly, I'm actually starting to doubt, outside the open degenerates, how much of it WAS slippery slope and how much of it was they were paid to cuck once their talented founders and devs moved on with their lives.

Difference is it was JUST a coat of paint, an asthetic that was still backed up by gameplay, writing and environmental design.

Nowadays, it's THE focus and everything else has been put as secondary. Maybe we can argue slippers slope but honestly, I'm actually starting to doubt, outside the open degenerates, how much of it WAS slippery slope and how much of it was they were paid to cuck once their talented founders and devs moved on with their lives.