"Hot Coffee" wasn't even an easter egg, it was something you got to through the normal in-game dialog in the dating minigame. You're treated to watching two polygonal adults dry-humping each other fully clothed, and for this one publicity-seeking soon-to-be-disbarred lawyer got the country clutching its collective pearls for a moment.

I'm pretty sure the industry and the general public are long over it. It's just that AAA game production has become such an assembly-line industrial corporate process that no one involved has the independence or remaining soul to write such things anymore.