They (PDX) are more interested in porting their games to consoles than creating good grand strategy games these days. Just look at the CK3 forum.... that is why they are having such a slow development cycle and don't do anything really innovative and add buttons mostly....so they can port it to console!
Chasing New Audiences and profits over catering to a niche fanbase... but that is capitalism and would probably happen eventually.
They decided IR wasn't salvageable (console portable) and did just enough to mollify the diehard niche IR fans and the game went the way of Sengoku and March of Eagles.
That is my opinion and you are free to disagree.
The CKIII port was outsourced to another studio. Of course that doesn't explain why CKIII development has been glacial and the most recent major DLC was massively overpriced in a slightly worrying development for Paradox DLC but I doubt PDS were utilising massive resources for the console port. Most likely just answering questions about the codebase when/if needed.
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