Eh if I squit my eyes realy hard I can see a way to make those arguments, but its mostly badly presented. Yes there are valid points, the lack of innovation is inexcusable etc. So I'll focus on what I found to be somewhat hilarious given I'm also a millenial.

I think he is talking about Ubisoft Montreal as "Ubisoft" in general, saying that AC 1 era Ubisoft was a "small developer"

During this period, in 2005, the government of Quebec gave Ubisoft CA$5 million to expand with anticipation of reaching 2,000 employees by 2010.[15] In 2007, with already 1,600 employees, the government increased to CA$19 million to reach 3,000 employees by 2013, which would make Ubisoft Montreal the world's largest game development studio.[16]

Yeah bro, I got you, smol beans indie dev youbisoft out there in 2007 with casualy hiring 1600 employees and receiving Canadian government funding. lol

Anyway you don't need to wikipedia his ass, if you're an actual millenial like he is you'd remember Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six Vegas, Far Cry and other "minor" games like Silent Hunter series.

Again I don't know if he is talking them as publishing or devs so who knows.

The graphics = better discourse was always there since the PS2 era. Actualy I mean hello? The PS2 was revolutionary in part because of the huge jump in graphics quality, MGS2 and FFX were well regarded for having absurd graphics for the time. Of course they were great games. But Kojima was always looking seriously at having the best graphics available at the time.

For example MGS 2 detailed environmental effects even some games today struggle to get that detail. This was in 2000 on a PS2. Sure not every game wanted to be MGS2, but if his premise is people did not care about graphics then that is definitely untrue. The difference was just that high quality was expensive and therefore unattainable for most devs. Today its absolutely dirt cheap you can get 4k HD textures for free almost as an indie solo dev lol.

The FF franchise was also historicaly the big new gen push for Sony, the flagship product. I remember, I know because I was one of the suckers that I almost bought a PS3 specificaly for FF13.

Just go back to the beginning of the console wars shit even. Gamers constantly trying to shill the next big shitty game with great graphics in 2020? No, 2016? No, 2010? No they were doing that in 2006.

The microtransaction shit. Yeah obviously back then they did full expansion packs but don't forget, the fucking horse armor was an Oblivion DLC released in April 3, 2006. Yes its terrible now. But people like him are already severely underestimating how far back it goes.

Its sad to see but he is mostly coming with rose tinted glasses and nostalgia here. This great era of gaming existed for maybe 5 years somewhere in the 1990's maybe.