[hereiskkb]

You seem to have the notion that only the big studios should be allowed to produce games. What's considered shitty varies from person to person, and is purely subjective. This is what happens with democratization of any technology. People will try and do whatever they can with it. Sometimes it will be gold. Most times it will be garbage. Shut out the garbage, and you won't get the gold.

[soup10]

middleware can solve "wheel reinvention" problems without gimping developers ability to do much beyond write a few scripts to manipulate engine entities