I’ve been a professional engineer in games for 24 years and can safely say this idea that things aren’t hard anymore is silly. Programming games has definitely got less unpleasant as tooling is much better but the actual mental problems are tough as ever.
You might be mistaking the sheer variety of games and that some are really quite simple for all games being easier to make.
You might be mistaking the sheer variety of games and that some are really quite simple for all games being easier to make.