No more pointless hunting for keys to open locked doors when you can just bash them in or blow them up, this is more realistic. And the player has been liberated from the tyranny of the mouse. Adventurers can now use the keyboard to navigate through the game world, or better still use their joystick or gamepad. No more cursor, no more pixel-hunting, just bump into things and keep moving, for action is the key. Instead they are being told, in no uncertain terms, to get used to it or get lost, for this is the way of the future.
Genres are dead and the hybrid game is king.
Adventurers who do try to speak out against this trend are labelled dinosaurs. They are accused of being closed-minded. They are accused of limiting adventures by imposing too rigid a definition on the genre. They are being howled down by some of the noisiest authorities for daring to express their concerns. With so many hybrid games being produced there is a serious risk that all diversity will be lost.