Everyone has said everything. The canon timeline of The Last of Us, the world ends in 2013. That's when the virus emerged in that world. Logically progressing from that the events that transpire in our work that ends in COVID-19 can't happen. Even if it did manifest there is not mass travel of humans to spread it. It stays contained where it originated. Calling it out in a game because it is happening in our world now, would be just lazy on everyone's part. It's ignoring the world they created, to comment on something that can't exist. This isn't Fortnite where Deadpool and Batman hang out with John Wick.
Games evolve every day, evolution is a slow and random process. You don't go from amoeba to humans in a week, compare any game from the start of a generation to one from the end. You will find huge advances despite running on the same hardware. The game from the end could have been released and run on day but it took a few years for it to evolve to where it got it.
I'm sure as we go forward COVID-19 will be integrated into games where appropriate. Do you expect Kojima to go back to Konami to allow him to rewrite the timeline of Metal Gear to include COVID-19 now? You shouldn't because COVID-19 doesn't exist in that universe the same way a man wearing a suit of hornets and walking nuclear tanks don't exist in ours. Or do you think the World Trade centre should be edited out of movies set past 2001 but still have them in the skyline?
It really sounds like you are burnt out, which happens, take a break get some distance. Come back to games in a week, month, year, or never. Whatever feels right for you.
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