Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
This is what WGT has been doing update after update.
I remember Nico posted somewhere here confirming that WGT is a very small group of engineers, marketers, designers and what not.
IMHO the main reason why they keep on repeating the same mistake over and over in each & every update for years is because someone above them keeps putting pressure on WGT staff to add or introduce something new to the game constantly, and that something new is unfortunately... always cartoonish, arcade-like, mickey-mouse stuff that are so distant from the nature of golf. TopGolf doesn't give a sod about the quality of this wonderful game 'cause it's only a marketing tool for them. If they did, they wouldn't run the game like they do now.
WGT should've never been acquired by TopGolf. Have you all seen TopGolf venues and websites, the ambiance & atmosphere they try to induce with golf? Honestly, you can't expect much from the people with that kind of motto. All these absurd nonsense we're going through right now may well be a natural consequence as long as TG controls WGT.
So yeah, I'd say the main culprit is TopGolf ruining this game, and I strongly disagree with folks who allege as if the game's gone downhill since the end of Flash version, putting the blame (as usual) entirely on the mobile/new platform.