Agreed. Also more specifically I'd really like if people rediscovered how to make great linear games rather than turning everything into an open-world setting.

There's a good talk on youtube where Warren Spector talks about the original Deus Ex design and stresses that it's a linear game from a story perspective with a lot of freedom in how to design the character. The last Deus Ex went down a completely different route with a focus on a sort-of open-world story-wise which I think takes way too much tension and the ability for the writer to design the narrative out of the game.