This is why I stopped giving a shit at work and not spending all the extra effort. It all just gets killed by some manager that doesn’t know what the hell they are talking about.

Key word there is planned. You can have all of the best practices covered with the best possible solutions. But, at the end of the day, shit happens outside of your control.

Are these valid in the US?

Still a slave to time on weekends. Gotta do all the shit I don’t have time to do during the work week.

Kind of like with movies. I want to see games/movies/etc with great stories/plots that were terribly executed. Do good games deserve a refresh, sure. But come on, do something original and stop riding the nostalgia wave.