@lextenebris the absolutely worst ideas and popular trends arise from those "actual" authorities. Like the very prominence of ludonarrative dissonance as a talking point, including and especially the take you raised. Being good at making games doesn't readily correlate with actually understanding why they're good games. Just like most artists could not express the formal art theory & aesthetics of their work, most writers don't know how to do formal analysis and lit crit, etc.