It mostly illustrates the trap that captures many new game developers. The existing game engines are too difficult so I will make new one, and then somehow they spend all the time working on technical side while the actual gameplay never realises. In this specific case I think the main goal was to show how Rust is superior tool for gamedev :D

Does Farm Simulator simulate the darker side of rural life, corruption, crime, etc.

No, put it didn't necessarily pitch itself as a finely detailed simulation.

I'm really not sure what you were going with with this line of passive aggressive what aboutism.

> etc.

Well it has heavy traffic.