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I don't disagree. As games have higher demands, they take longer to make.
I think that experience churn is also a part of what makes it harder to see a continuous improvement in quality. In this comment area, you can see a little microcosm of what I mean. "Best year" seems to be a good year that lands during a certain age/point in your gaming experience journey.
I see that every year there are fewer games that I want to spend my time playing. I also see that I've got less time to play, and that a lot of games are just derivative, incremental refinements, sequels, or just "another game like...". I also see that a bunch of those games are being massively praised.
My take is that the games are better, I just have a raising threshold for novelty, and a game can be good and also not meet that threshold.
No matter how good your game is I've already played a puzzle platformer, so the new one won't be the same.