You are correct. I guess Annapurna can be considered a "publisher with good taste".

Annapurna Interactive (outer wilds, what remains of Edith Finch).

They are not separate and that is the problem. That separates "crony capitalism" or "corporationism" from "free market capitalism".

Either way, the critique is to be addressed to the legislature. It is the government that ultimately allows for such pathological situation to exist.