Edmund has said he specifically did this on purpose. There’s no singular game winning item. The power comes from combinations. He added passives and items that seem boring at face value but get better when synergizing with something else.

With all that said I think the breeding is what will make runs broken. Good items will be an unnecessary cherry on top when your cats are overpowered from the start.

I think it’s less of a monopoly and more of the fact that they won the market share game. I could buy all my games somewhere else but I don’t know why I would do something so stupid.

And no doubt an optimized version of the game will exist but only at the enterprise level for streaming providers.

You call the space saturated with sameness then rip on the game for taking a different stylistic choice. You’re contradicting your own arguments.