Yes, but devs are a lot more replaceable than stars, whose faces and performance represent the movie
People caught onto this in comic books, however. There are savvy readers who follow writers and artists, not characters. There are savvy fans of Anime who do this as well. There are even people who do this with books and movies. There are some gamers who do this with games.
Same old story. There are those fooled by surfaces, and those who try to see beneath them.
Yes, but game developers aren't the ones doing the art, or writing, for games.
If somebody thinks they can get more money with less effort then we want them to try working that way instead.
In other words, corporations make a cost/benefit calculation. In the case of software developers and lead software developers, my experience is that most corporations can concretely read the dollar amount as cost, but often drastically underestimate the potential cost of bad software.
There are situations where many people are valued below market for a long, long time. Markets aren't omniscient and infinitely fast.