So here's what I don't get... CIG is a notoriously mismanaged company running an incredibly bloated game that has been feature-creeped beyond all recognition from its original pitch, run by a self-important auteur egomaniac who frequently costs the company time (and therefore money) by exercising a truly obsessive level of control over every single aspect of the game's development...

... And they're also so shockingly good at everything they do, so efficient, so clever and smart that they can spend 13 years very publicly producing a ridiculously high concept, broadly scoped, overly ambitious money pit of an MMO, whilst actually secretly siphoning off the majority of the money they've received into their own personal accounts. They are, in fact, so good at this that they can make a game bigger and more complex than GTA 6, on the same kind of budget, whilst actually needing to only spend a fraction of that budget on the actual game development, and they're so good in fact that they can do all of that whilst convincingly running the pretense of being a shockingly mismanaged company.

Do I have that right?

Look, I get the urge to turn everything into a conspiracy, but bro, it ain't that deep. They're just a bunch of nerds with bad people skills and a lot of money to burn.