Maybe not that opinion specifically but Thomas had a way of putting down other developers' work on this forum while flaunting his own that lines up with accounts from this article, especially what he would do with new recruits who had experience in the industry and shitting on their previous games. Here is just one example:
There's definitely a difference in approach to game development and some people like this more, others that. What I find interesting is that - And I'm just guessing here - due to most western studios nowadays thinking that Open World is the pinnacle of level design, it's surprisingly hard to...
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"Y'all would be surprised how many designers in this industry with 10+ years of experience don't even know the basics of level design. They all think they do, of course, but once you put them to a test, it's very obvious that this skill has almost gone missing. I would bet that if you'd have some of the 'best' designers out there trying to make a 3d Mario level, they'd fail on oh so many levels... there's still a few great ones out there and usually we gobble those up at Moon, but it's a sad thing to realize that due to the open world bullshit, we're seeing an entire generation of designers who just really lack even understanding the basics of how level design works."
