Mobile games have basically always been like that. It’s practically Shovelware: The Industry. They’re cheap and quick to make compared to other games and mtx make crazy money, so they’re basically the equivalent of those cheap Chinese clothing brands that pop up out of nowhere for a month on Amazon and then change names to something like Zivaldie.
I think it’s a high fructose corn syrup joke, but that’s more like squeezing all the sugar out of a cob of corn and pretending it’s juice concentrate in my mind.