So we've recently had a spate of games come out in the old CRPG style which directly follows pen-and-paper or tabletop RPG rulesets. In many ways, this can be very clunky, especially in comparison to systems that were made specifically for video game RPGs. For instance, I would argue that mana systems are way more natural and fluid for video games than a daily-usage resting system. In a way, it makes me wish they would go back to using classic video game systems instead of using pen-and-paper or tabletop rulesets.
HOWEVER, there is a weird slippery slope effect I don't quite understand. The moment you start moving away from these pen-and-paper/tabletop rulesets, you quickly start hurtling towards the total annihilation of all RPG flavor, like these archaic rulesets made for a different medium entirely are somehow holding back total enshittification. Racial traits are done away with and races become entirely cosmetic, wizards have their magic systems and spells whittled down to nothing until they're little more than a particle effect turret. Priests and clerics might have it the worst though, because I can't think of ANY game that gives the priest/cleric class any kind of religion system that isn't being forced to by some kind of pen-and-paper or tabletop ruleset.
Why is this? Why does it seem to be so hard for developers to have both modern video game RPG mechanics AND all the little things that give RPGs their fantasy and flavor?