That video you shared was great!
I agree that neutering an artist's vision is almost always a mistake, but I wonder if the artist's vision has changed with the times as well? Furthermore, with patches, updates, downloadable content, and expansion packs for games, at what point is a game, as a work of art, complete?
How do you even begin to preserve a work of art when it is constantly changing and evolving?
I can't wrap my head around the custodian's thought process. They were able to figure out which breaker to hit, but they couldn't read the note?
I can't imagine losing 20+ years of research to something so foolish. Then again, I also can't imagine not having an additional local redudancy for power failures (assuming they already had generators for the entire facility).
I've been playing "Haiku the Robot" that was recently featured in Humble's Metroidvania bundle. It's a really nice, small Hollow Knight clone.
I went off on a weird tangent about game preservation after my initial question, but that's what I meant with my "I wonder if the artist's vision has changed as well."
If the artist's views have changed, and they are either supportive or the driver of a change like this, is it neutering their vision? It's certainly straying from the original vision, but I wouldn't call it neutering.
When I think of neutering, or really, betraying an artist's original vision, I think of something more akin to Terminator 2 (James Cameron was pushed to give the movie an open-ended ending), or, more recently, 2003's Dumb & Dumberer.