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Honestly, I don't think there is a person alive that could single-handedly develop a game of this scope without getting burnt out.

That's the first problem. The subsequent problem, once you've realized that, is that many people that want to pursue solo development of a game are unlikely to be good PMs once they bring on others.

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I mean, just look at what a joke No Man's Sky was, and realize that they had way more funding and many more people working on it at various points.

To be fair, No Man's Sky is a much better game today than it was around launch, when it was getting peak bad press. At that point, the prudent move might have been to cut their losses and move on to other projects. But instead Hello Games has spent the last couple years releasing free updates.

Absolutely!

But that still took two extra years and loads more money and people.

> many people that want to pursue solo development of a game are unlikely to be good PMs once they bring on others

When I went from being on a small independent consulting team, to working for a company with project managers, it really blew my mind just how important a good PM is. I had that cocky developer attitude of "We don't need no stinkin' PM", but now I see so many projects that, if they only had a good PM, would have gotten so much more done, faster...

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