What makes me most concerned about the current state of affairs of the Gran Turismo franchise is its inability to offer additional and updated content, keeping pace with competing games and the pace of new racing cars coming to market.
I'm really impressed - in a bad way - that Ferrari's GT3 car has ten more years to live. And since the launch of the 458 GT3, Ferrari has already released the 488 GT3, 488 GT3 Evo, 488 GTE and the 293 GT3. PD didn't bring us a new Ferrari GT3 or GTE. This is bizarre!
If you don't see a problem with that in terms of content production, I don't know what the problem is for you anymore.
Today, PD-Sony is making online competition and Sport Mode the heart of the Gran Turismo franchise, using especially the Gr.3 (GT3-GTE) and Gr.4 (GT4) categories. But, the cars of these modalities are almost not updated. Since GT Sport was launched, I believe that PD has only presented five cars to make up the Gr.3, for example. That's ridicioulos.
Some PD fans attribute responsibility to third parties, who blame expensive licensing, for example. As licensing, even low-budget production companies get access to updated circuits, sports cars and racing cars?
In my opinion, the problem may be a work culture issue. I think that Sony could open a large PD branch in Europe, to add knowledge, methodologies and new technologies for content production, considering that Europe is where most simulator producers are located.