It's not due to diversity & inclusion hires. It's just due to the general inefficiency of Western workers & production pipelines - similar to the problem they have in manufacturing. It's only avoided in tech. because they hire so many foreign engineers and scientists, but the games industry can't get away with as many foreign workers because it doesn't pay well enough or want to sponsor so many H1bs. Even still most of their art is contracted out to countries in Asia and South America because they are cheaper and better.
Chinese companies are rising in gaming because they treat the game development business the same way they treat the manufacturing business - maximize production efficiency and speed. Western companies thought this method would never work because games are "creative" and you need "time for creativity." They're not totally wrong about that, but where they missed is that taking a decade to make a game just normalizes production inefficiencies and laziness. It doesn't matter if your game is creative and praised if it takes you 10 years and 5x the budget - you're going to lose money regardless.
Chinese games are fast to market and efficient to produce, and most of the time, they make enough money to sustain the development team. That is what matters when you're just getting started. Of course, I'd like to see more creativity and IP development as the industry matures, but that's almost inevitable - if there's five hundred companies making similar games, the only way you'd be able to differentiate yourself is by investing in creativity and IP. That comes later, for now the Chinese industry is and should be focused on creating the most efficient game production pipeline ever and training up a large pool of talent.
