[setr]

No man's sky would have been a bad game by either development practice; it's failure primarily stems from a misunderstanding of game design

The game was fundamentally shallow

[ThomPete]

While I agree on that I think the point of the parent was that No Man's Sky would never have been created if it was designer first.

[cobalt]

well a lot of people may realize they don't really have a design, but will think that they can build one up as they work