Well that’s what I think.

Nice writing, but I think a false worry and strange comparison. Game designing is different, it’s less individual, less about meaning…

At the UK Develop conference earlier this year there was a design panel where each panelist brought an item that represented what they though was wrong in gaming today, and put forward the case for having it never appear in a game ever again.
A panelist bought-in a cardboard box to represent stealth (Metal Gear Solid) because he thought stealth was something that should never be seen again. Peter Molyneux who was also on that panel had no idea what the connection between stealth and the box was! Fable also had one of the worst stealth sections of any game. So these designers might be considered masters today, but they don’t have the time or experience to steal effectively. That then begs the question as to wither these so called master designers are really masters at all and what direction the industry is heading in if nobody can iterate on previous designs effectively.