Why would you ever buy one of these games?

I stopped playing anything that's a live service, don't buy games until a year after release so they have most of the QoL fixes applied unless I really trust the devs and want to support the project.

It's almost like there's thousands of games besides the mainstream ones being shoved down the masses' throats that are already fully worth your time, you just gotta look around a bit for them - because they didn't sink a huge portion of their budget into marketing - because they made a good game.