The early 2000s were wild, a dev could just say shit like this in interviews and still get treated like a gaming celeb with magazines shooting ego-stroking promo videos where he plays with swords while wearing sunglasses indoors.
You’d never get a director like Tomonobu Itagaki today because of woke mind virus cancel culture!!! 
I’m watching Grim Beard’s new video on the Tekken spinoff Death by Degrees which includes a funny tangent about the one-sided feud between Tomonobu Itagaki and Katsuhiro Harada where he shows this interview
In a better world this would be intresting to explore. He has a point. Generations prior to ours were raised with a national age of majority around there. We have pushed our concept of majority up but I don’t think we actually treat anyone any better. I dunno if liberal theory has the ability to improve this situation so I am not optimistic about the mass discourse