> All the coverage about crunch, for instance, or sexual harassment scandals at big companies—-these are topics broken by games journos.

Sorry to be blunt but, that's not games. That's games journalists who want to be activists in their own fields. That, just as the gorillionth take on how this or that is problematic, is just people wanting to inject their politics into a hobby and it can't disappear soon enough.

I don't see that as an advantage of journalism. I see that as an evil to endure for a good that isn't there.