Why have there been so many flops/troubled development this gen?

It amazes me when people act as if this shit is new.

Publishers will go out of their way to invent and concoct excuses as to why these games fail and wont face up to the facts. Games are getting more expensive and these people make boneheaded decisions like inject them with real world politics or attempt to nickel and dime you through obnoxious transactions. Fallout 76 was unforgivable. Mass Effect Andromeda was a pile of unfinished, badly written cack. Anthem was by a publisher that people had long lost faith with and was not the return to form they claimed it would be. Essentially, the blame is on them and they refuse to face up to the real reasons.

Most publishers are too worried about how to implement money making schemes in the games instead of just making the dam game itself and letting that feed off itself.