Huh... So basically this person is trying to justify being generic. I think if Ray Charles made an album "Like Kanye West", people would say he sold out.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Because, according to him, strategy games are outdated relics that shouldn't exist anymore.
I know he said it as a justification, but it's an unbelievably bad, false justification with absolutely no truth to it, and I hope so, so much that gaming doesn't continue to head in that direction...
Oh, and also, if it is the bad cashin it looks like, I hope this game doesn't sell.