I feel this misses a lot of context
For example Bethesda's can be much more meaningful as the time spent showing games is focused on a small subset and showing a large amount of them vs other conferences that are more on quantity, trailers that don't show much of any game at all or are highly scripted pieces.
So yeah, not really anything too interesting to me as a metric of "game shown" vs "talking"
I share the same sentiment.
What's the point of a heavily scripted segment that is in no way indicative of the final product, esp. one that is a couple of years from release, unless we're watching/treating/rating the E3 like a TV show and nothing more (some do and I respect that, but that's not what I look forward to in a game expo).
We need more direct/honest/bullshit free gameplay footages, like some of the ones that we get on the floors.