Dunno who needs to hear this but:

Game dev articles a lot of times say "nobody wants to play this kind of game anymore" or "we have to do it this way now because," and

just ignore those bits. They're talking about AAA, if not F2P gamers, and seriously: who cares?

Make games for YOUR audience.

#GameDev

@glassbottommeg yeah those phrases boiled down to "this is no longer the optimal way to make money" as if that's the only goal, and the alternative is usually aggressive monetization.