VR is necessary for this thing to be a good product, also I bet people would rather use apple services than oculus despite the fact APPLE DELETED SOMEONE'S AUDIO FILES AND RUINED THE REST BY CONVERTING THEM TO COMPRESSED FORMATS!
You are right in how gaming will survive the crash, and thankfully we already have anti-woke/non-woke developers ready to capitalize on this by securing ideologically aligned talent that only works for large companies for paychecks.
the source of the issue was deliberate malice from the feminist movement writ large, what we now call wokeness.
That was apparent to everyone who is intelligent considering the extremist cunts get pissed at literally anything that does not comply to their ideology, also it was obvious they were clearly defending Zoe Quinn due to both personal ties AND extremism. They literally believed she did nothing wrong because the woke butt buddies are all literal misandrists who have no issue with women cheating on men.
At this point we either vote people in who will initiate a self coup against the globalist corruption so we can subjugate them and the regressive left to a mass tribunal, or we overthrow the government and kill them all as a final solution to the corruption.
George R. R. Martin should just use magic to write himself out of the corner because magic exists in his lore.