I think the time it takes to do all this is the biggest problem. How not to overthink or overanalyze how to block new inspiration how not to get new ideas when you have access to new technological toys that you didn't have before. As he claims he wrote the whole story but producing it in a dull and mechanical way for over 10 years is a simple recipe for turning your life into a joyless festival of grindness and numbness.
It's a bit like the curse of being a psychic like Alice from Zero End when you know every move you make for the next dozen or so years you will burn out very quickly and lose the desire to continue
Let's start with the fact that the biggest mistake was made at the very beginning the very concept of making 5 games creating one universe over the course of over 20 years is pure madness for a single developer if Ocean Lab was a collaborative project created by four artists called Atlantic, Pacific. Indian and Arctic sharing one studio each creating their own game and sharing ideas with each other, then we can say that we are heading towards our goal, in our situation we can only hope that our crazy journey into the unknown will be a joyride
