The publishers made them. If you don't have an early review ready the second a game releases, nobody cares about your review. Publishers knew that and would blacklist anyone that gave them bad reviews. No early copies means no day one reviews.
So all that are left are places like IGN that will never give a score lower than 6/10 for the largest dog shit games in existence.
Weird way to say bribed him but ok
Plus the whole reliability issues.
Not all, pandemic years were fucking glorious in tech. Then the rich decided to punish us for being both more productive and happy. Because we can demand more pay when we aren't scared.
Twitter servers were a benchmark in global performance up until he started fucking around with them. They were included on latency tests. The second he touched them latency tripled. Never went back down. He turned Twitter from a tech company leader into a social propaganda network worth a fraction of itself.
Because publishers get all the money and are squeezing studios dry to chase higher returns, but don't let that stop your circlejerk.