people are still figuring out how to do new impressive things in videogames all the time! it's a creative field with tons of talented people who've stuck with it despite the industry part of it being an exploitative horrorshow.
imagine being the kind of grifter who stands near that and tells the paper of record, "my fucked up computer program is going to do something so much cooler than all those chumps using their brains and relying on one another, they'll be out of a job in five years".