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@matt
I don't think it's an unpopular opinion at all.

Things were way stricter because when submitting gold, factories would start to press discs/cartridges and distribute manually. This was expensive.

This is a way more delicate issue if you used a buggy build. Sometimes, it had catastrophic consequences (I remember Myth II's discs breaking PCs when being uninstalled).

So, having better standards was actually a necessity, an obligation, compared to now.