It's not easy to predict the future. You do the best you can with the information on hand, sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. Case in point: Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser, who said in 2018 that he was thankful the studio wasn't releasing a new Grand Theft Auto game amidst a Donald Trump presidency, because the political climate in the US made it "really unclear what we would even do with it, let alone how upset people would get with whatever we did."
"Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd," Houser said at the time, which I will again remind you was in 2018—seven years ago. "It’s hard to satirize for those reasons. Some of the stuff you see is straightforwardly beyond satire. It would be out of date within two minutes, everything is changing so fast."
