the big issue that's been cropping up since last gen has been the closing of old mid-tier studios, and the games they've made being replaced by $10-$20 indie games. worse, the aaa-market has been doubled down on again and again. it wasn't enough to raise the price of these games, or to have customers spend more per title on dlc, but now they are being locked in to these games through paywall schemes. it's catering to an increasingly narrow segment of the market- one that can afford all those things, where the less lucrative parts are barely considered. the success of indie games comes as almost a necessary alternative to this just one market. outside of only a few examples, it's not like first-parties or third-parties are building their software lineups and strategies around these games (although microsoft has been historically better than the others about this sort of thing, to be honest).
it is bad that there will probably be a literal billion games sold at retail lost to other, newer, and different parts of the industry (compared to the previous generation). that's going to have an effect on how development for these current dedicated machines are treated. it has already with the more homogenized output, as you've noticed.
