How did we get here?

Game developers are spending too much time designing games that look good, versus games that have good content even the game devil may cry that clearly has the better gameplay. Is a game that was intentionally designed as a grind instead of doing things like. Making a city, then allowing the player to get demon bounties, and have the player run through a city shooting through locations in the city like hotels etc. You know doing what the story of the world devil may cry is designed around. It is very cringe to see the state of gaming it is very laughable and trash.