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I'd blame game journos for mid-budget games dying. They never report on anything that doesn't relate to a big studio or their fuck buddies in the indie scene. A close second is big studios buying promising new studios and killing them after making them create shitty spinoffs of their franchises.That's just a general trend in most media I think. It's kinda how mid-budget films have died, now it's either indieshit or a spectacle. Maybe streaming services have alleviated this a bit, but then you're chained to a whole other beast.
The biggest problem is that building a big studio that makes big games is nearly impossible today. Making that small studio -> big studio jump isn't happening with the middle missing unless you have connections that are willing to take a risk on you (not the game).
Game industry (especially in the US) is just Hollywood now, either you ask Uncle Ezekiel for a career in the entertainment industry at your Bar Mitzvah or you're pretty much shit out of luck.