That's because these were your game developers back then:
Passionate video game geeks with a dream bouncing off each other, eating pizza, and drinking mountain dew whilst coding with the bros.
Now, it's more like this:
(the fact that they're all women isn't the problem, but you see what I mean.)
These people don't really care about the franchises they're developing on. They're merely using them as springboards to supplant whatever inane ideologies they've been concocting over the last decade and sucking the soul out of what used to be passion projects for video game ardents. It's sad.