Let's not kid ourselves. Tomb Raider was just an attempt to sucker everyone into buying a (super hard, let's be real nobody actually finished those games) game for Lara's tits. Multiplatforms were made to maximize profit, not accessibility. Mods were already being released for money (Counter Strike, among others). Although loot boxes are bad, there's no reason to think that execs of the past wouldn't have done the same thing current execs are now doing if they could have.