And you believed them?

It's obvious the only thing Stern is interested is the machine which is currently on the production line. They don't give a s1ht about any previous games they are not intending to build in the future. Once they are out of production; they are "out" of planned updates. The only time is when a design comes out as a vault... then they may do one or two updates to the art or something.
IE spider man -> spider man "comic book"

Agreed... but we don't really "welcome" the industry here. They always get crucified.
Most of the time; it's well deserved... but sometimes its just thin-skinned "reps".

No... because that would mean they'd be forced to actually tow "management's" desire to only focus on games next on the production line.
Agile doesn't fix management problems... it would only highlight that nothing on the priority list gets bandwidth.

I do agree that they need to budget more developer resources ... but we've all been "told" that code was a priority when it clearly isn't. Fool me once....