Originally posted by Letozeth:

Moral of this story is to buy a new apartment when your old one gets dirty.

No, the moral of this story is after initial success, sales and marketing concepts take over a company and the product concepts eventually make their way out.

As a result over time, you then have a whole new audience of customers who bought because of sales and marketing, not because of the product benefits of the original vision behind it.

As a trade the origin customers either all jump off or come to terms with the majority, depending on how important principles are to them.

Originally posted by Webbman:

He clings on some idealistic version of the game that was never even real.

Causality principle of cause and effect - btw. a law of nature. Nothing happens without a cause, even the production of a videogame which needs to be based on an idea and a framework of it which themselves must be based on principles, otherwise the whole game would be pure arbitrariness.

As soon as you have principles, you have a vision shaped by what is objectively real, i.e. idealistic.

A bit of deductive thinking - subtract unimportant details and you would also be able to read the handwriting of the developer and even if someone else suddenly takes the fountain pen in hand. Irrelevant for whatever reason.

It's obvious that the new parts don't fit on the base frame of the game. But you are welcome to doubt further the principles of causality.