Worse, there’s a long term business detriment here Asobo seems to be missing entirely.
With FS24 they brought onboard as 1st party several studios that learned in FS20 and greatly improved the platform. Newsflash, gentlemen. They didn’t learn from Asobo SDK Docs which are infamously incomplete and/or incorrect. They learned by looking at Your WORK, Asobo, not at what passes as documentation at Your studio.
Now nobody will learn a thing and in 3 years Jorg and Seb will be puzzled, “Why there’s no fresh dev talent emerging in FS24? Where’s our next Gotfriends and Working Title?”
Thanks to this fateful misstep of pivoting towards a walled garden eco-system there will be none. But corpos usually don’t think that far ahead.