Lack of funding is mentioned every paragraph?

belt-tightening can often mean simply shutting down.

Sheffield says it’s hard not to feel guilty when other studios go under, even as his own struggles. “We’re all kind of fighting for a tiny slice of the same pie,”

“When an indie doesn’t get funding for its game, you just quietly never see their work again,”

The industry is struggling because steam and the other stores keep them on the brink, they have no leeway. I don’t know how steams greed could be seen as unrelated.