Yellow posted... Really hard to rank developer teams. You can have a great team with hundreds of talented people and it only takes 1 to fuck it all up.
Like a CEO that is just some nepo-failson, or a writer that is just painfully unfunny. Borderlands 3 dialog was terrrrrible. Such a shame, writing funny dialog was like 0.00001% of the work that needed to be done but it soured the whole thing. Also, the infinite gun mechanic just didn't matter to me at all?
Valve has a great studio, but that might be because they aren't a public company that lights itself on fire. Everyone in charge there built the company. They don't give a shit if something they do loses them money in the short-term, and they don't squeeze the life out of their IPs. The best studios always have someone protecting them from the higher-ups ruining everything.
If it simplifies things I am ranking them on the quality of their game library not their internal politics.