Seriously, if you follow a decent amount of developers/programmers on twitter, a couple things become obvious:
Game developers and game development is like the bottom rung for programmers. A great stepping stone, but the best ones ALWAYS move on to where they feel they can make the most difference and far better opportunities.
When all metaverse shit started gaining traction, a LOT of the better, truly knowledgeable developers, were lured away from game development with massive pay days.. the likes of which game developers simply cannot afford to compete with.