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Because here was the truth she had uncovered, buried beneath a decade of well-meaning algorithmic sedation: a culture that cannot bear to see itself—ugly, petty, hilarious, cruel, confused—is a culture that has stopped growing. The patches had not healed the wounds. They had only made the patient forget they were bleeding.
Some argue that the ability to patch content encourages studios to rush unfinished products to market, relying on future updates to make them playable or watchable.