How do you top a great game? How do you undo the process of catharsis that occurs at the end of the game so you are challenged once more into becoming a fragmented Art Cop sorry cop Communnard.
They would have been told to expand the appeal, dumb down the rhetoric, and trick the masses into buying-in. They would have ultimately sold out no matter what.
Kinda glad to have played the best game and it stays the best.
Dog, Disco Elysium is just the proof of concept for The Return. The whole point of the game was that they didn't think they could handle making the Return off the bat so they made a smaller game first.