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The people running the show see no benefit from their team members "learning" or "gaining experience". If they ship the game and are so ground down they're burned out and ineffective, that's a problem for the next guy; the manager who got the game shipped by burning out the team got a huge bonus and has leveraged it into a shiny position somewhere else by the time any of the consequences rear their heads. IME this type of short-term thinking inevitably infects most companies, unless there is a very strong culture to combat it.