Totally agree. The AAA side of the industry has lost its way in terms of the basics i.e. making fun games.
I'm working my way through my games catalogue and rediscovering games I never got around to playing. Loving it.
As for the rest of this year, I see me buying Starfield and Stalker 2...if they both release that it is. And first contact will be via gamepass for both of those. I won't be paying for games guranteed to be broken at launch. If they both turn out decent I'll then buy them on Steam.
Other than that, the non AAA side of gaming is going from strength to strength. Arma Reforger has already been modded into DayZ for example, by the community, for free. Whereas Activision just shut down a modded version of COD. Says it all really.