I wasn't attempting to troll here, my reply was directly to this claim from the parent comment: "they moved to a more normal corporate structure so they would actually finish projects instead of people bouncing when the project got hard"

And they finished Half Life Alyx and the Steam Deck. I don't get your point. The origin of that quote is from the written documentary they made about the development of Alyx.

"people bouncing when the project got hard"

My point, in response to this specific quote from the person I was replying to, is that good people don't bounce when a project gets hard, they in fact do the opposite.

If you disagree with the statement I quoted from the person I was replying to that's fine, I have no bone to pick.

And the Index on which to play Alyx.