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The biggest issue in the entertainment industry right now is this concept of short-term value for long-term product degradation. You can see this everywhere, from video games to sports to movies. Companies and people are constantly cashing checks only made possible by built-up market goodwill- cont.

This sort of thing is fine, except that companies are forgetting they need to rebuild that market goodwill. Cutting the game version of Mass Effect while pushing the show out is just one example of a company that is probably costing itself a shitload of money long term (assuming the show is good).

The metaphor here is a sports team's general manager entering win-now mode rather than rebuilding, because they know they'll get fired if they don't win more games right away. The irony is that this just makes them a middling slop-team and cripples the franchise for decades.