And the wild part is I remember for a time G*mers screeching about wanting critics like Roger Ebert to take games seriously as an art. Now they got their wish, developers are treating their projects like art, and they don't like it because it dares to make them uncomfortable sometimes.
Art is communication, communication facilitates understanding, idk quite how to articulate from C to D but that sounds dangerous for the fascist project
Also rejecting deviation means clamping down on personal expression, leaving just the one acceptable surface aesthetic