You ever heard of the expression mile wide inch deep?
I love indie's and play them more than AAA titles. So your entire assumption falls apart already. Steam having hundreds of thousands of wannabe 'indie' bloatware titles proves my point exactly.
You make it seem as if there is only 10 good to 100,000 bad. You do realize that there are also thousands of good games, most of them in a multitude of play hours, right? You know how long that would take to complete in one's lifetime?
Every artistic industry is bloated with content. The good news is that these mediums have existed for years. To bring this back to movies again, At this point in film, it would be infinitely smarter to find a curation service/recommendation service to find the very large amount of good content, rather than focusing on the even larger amount of content that you don't even want to play in the first place.
If there are 100,000 good movies and 10,000,000 mediocre-to-bad movies, the 100,000 movies will still last you
22 years worth in terms of hours watched. By the time you even manage to catch up with all of them, there will be 100,000 more.
Since our conversation has devolved into you trying to 'win' I will simply give it to you. You won the argument. I concede.
Now, to go back to my original reply to you, I truly hope that you and others here, personally, find more games to enjoy for the rest of your lives, rather than find games to prove a forum point about your perception of the state of the industry being 'poor'. Shovelware, slop, and I.P. cash grabs have existed since the Atari, NES, SNES, Wii, etc. and I have avoided them since then and will continue to avoid them in the future. I never once thought 'The entire industry is in a decline' when the Wii was 95% shovelware titles and the Xbox 360 shifted to Kinect in it's second half. I simply moved on to the next thing I wanted to enjoy. That's how movies and books work too.
As a consumer I still haven't felt an any actual decline yet, and I don't think I ever could, since by the time I manage to catch up on my backlog, more good content will be out for me to enjoy. Hell, even in this small interrim where GAF is claiming western AAA gaming is in a slump, those same posters are saying that the east has stepped up to the plate to fill that void, and this is still on top of so many good indie and AA games releasing back to back every month.
It's a hamster wheel of constant good content and so many here are on the wrong wheel.