And stuff like this is exactly why the Xbox brand will continue to limp along like a mediocre football player, the kind who's just there to fill out the team roster and little more. There are TOO. MANY. ENABLERS. Towards the brand's shortcomings. When those include big content creators and known games journalists, you create an atmosphere of being surrounded by enablers who don't really want you to do what's best for you, or to get better...they just want you to like them, so that they can benefit off whatever it is you have.
Guys like Ryan are acting like the relative who sneaks McDonald's to an obese family member trying to go on a diet to get weight loss surgery. They're like the "friend" who keeps sneaking little cases of beer to someone in a detox program for alcoholism. If Xbox have any official affiliation with these types, they need to cut them off, because they are slowly killing the brand with insincere kindness.
There's no way on Earth Don Mattrick, who was fired in 2014, is responsible for Xbox's woes in 2023, almost a full nine years later. No, Xbox's current issues are on Phil Spencer's watch; his gamble of Game Pass isn't quite the revenue boon he pitched it to be. All 1P Day 1 on PC is now having a noticeable effect on console hardware demand (Phil probably didn't initiate that policy but he could've pushed to scale back on it, now that he's been in charge of Xbox directly since 2017). If some of the decisions that have come about for the brand weren't from him, then he could've argued and pushed in favor of other ideas, if he actually wanted to.
People like Ryan need their corporate access privileges so of course they aren't going to direct criticism to where or whom it should obviously be directed towards. But that just ruins what remaining journalistic credibility they have left. If they want to do that, let them. Because if they keep enabling some of these decisions, they're eventually going to reach a breaking point themselves and realize where they should have been directing criticism to the whole time. But by then, it'll be too late.