If it were really groundbreaking, I imagine it wouldn't have burned out after a little missed hype. See No Man's Sky.

The other way to look at this is, thank goodness we didn't waste months or years on a failed game concept. Instead we got to market and validated (or invalidated) the concept fast.

it's a validated concept with a popular youtuber behind it, tried and true method that worked for years all brought down by game being non functional.