i fully support epic games's decision to move #fortnite to a completely ai-driven workflow because fortnite is the anti-template for AAA games. nobody could break into the battle royale sphere after fortnite dethroned pubg and maintained active playerbase in spite of the hardships and competition, and the "fortnite slump" proved that even these mega-popular "forever games" can't last forever so now AAA games look to fortnite as an example of what not to do. you don't want to follow it closely because people will just go play fortnite instead, and you don't want to repeat its mistakes lest the game you sunk billions of dollars into suddenly stops making money overnight. so when fortnite pivots to fully ai development and inevitably crashes and burns, every single western AAA company will take that not as a sign that Tim Sweeney is psychotic and Epic Games is run like a fucking cult, but that fully ai developed games "just don't work" and that they shouldn't do it.