Yeah it's the AAA curse, my advice to you if you still enjoy games is look to indie. There might be the occasional jank but there are a lot of gems to find.
I suspect most people don't really understand what indie means in terms of games, especially when contrasted against AAA. Many indie games now rival AAA games in terms of scope and scale, a decent chunk are even getting up there in production quality, and the overall quality/refinement often already exceeds AAA games which are increasingly often just buggy messes at launch.
Valheim [1] is a nice example. That is an indie game, made by a 5 guy team, primarily based on one guy's toy projects. Tools and resources for game development have increased so much that it's possible for very small teams to do some really incredible things.
