Oh shit Austin actually does have Culvers. Can someone explain to me why Culvers is a thing right now? I missed whatever brought it up in the first place.
Case in point.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/candy-crush-statistics/
Candy Crush pulled in a solid $1.1 billion motherfucking dollars last year. I guarantee you there are not 100 developers on that team.
There will never be a game developer's union. Any developer with any talent can just rollover to any other industry to increase their pay and lower their stress. Actors and Screenwriters can't do that.
Your problem is that everything you say is in the context of the rank and file of company workers where it works exactly like you're talking about. For some reason you think this applies all the way to the top when it doesn't.