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I stopped reading once you mentioned cyberpunk. It’s been fixed for a very long time now and it’s an absolutely fantastic game. 
I don’t think you’re a gamer as much as you once wanted to be. I beat 49 games last year (I write them all down) so the fact that you can’t find ONE game to play? You’re just not into video games bro.
20 years ago was 2003, we were well into 3D era by then. Halo was out and we were well on our way to Halo 2. Gamecube had some games that still hold up aesthetically (Luigi's Mansion, Zelda Windwaker) we were well past "barely rendering things on a screen". And people were already whining that the gaming industry was going downhill.
This year had Elden Ring, which to my understanding sucked up a lot of gamers' time and was considered a huge success. It's no surprise talk was so limited when the big early year release was such a time sink. On the other side of the pond Xenoblade 3 released to quite a lot of critical praise and only a small handful of minor, albeit hilarious bugs. 
That's not even getting into the indie side of things. I haven't even played this year's because I'm still catching up on on all the great games that came out in the last couple years. It Takes Two was a phenomenally fun game. Hades was the best roguelike I've ever played (and I've played many). I can't wait to get to this year's set. 
All franchises and studios hit a creative roadblock at sometime or another. Many big successes get tempted by greed and cutting corners at some point or another. Try branching out from the big titles and give newer ones a try. >

There’s tons of amazing games. You’re only focusing on popular games. >

This.
All these games tried to make too many people happy and didn't focus on one thing.
Look at a game like outer wilds, a beautiful game that knows what it wants to be and executes that one thing perfectly. >

Game awards will also appeal to people who like and pay attention to mainstream AAA games. Whereas smaller games might get "indie GOTY" or other smaller side categories. But there's no way some of those games are going to beat out colossus games like Ragnarok or Smellden Ring.  
I can't take OOP's take seriously because looking at game awards for good takes, or only taking AAA titles into consideration is going to neglect the volumes of other great games out there. I mean, I can't even go onto Steam without getting a bit overwhelmed at the depths of options. >

Award events in general is literally just a popularity contest. Doesn't matter how good something or someone is if nobody knows about it. You could have created what is objectively the best game in the world, but if only you have played it, it doesn't matter. 
Stray is a great game, but its not a AAA game so it was obviously not mentioned in that award event. >

There are some golden indie games but due to the heavy concentration of games there is quite a bit of landfill quality games >

Honestly youtuber reviewers are a super helpful resource nowadays. Top 10 lists for whatever category you're looking for have helped me find a ton of great games. And also avoid some sucky ones. >

This is true >

What a surprise, you like the games that made your childhood. Thats normal. It’s called memories, not surprising or unpopular I think. >

I mean you can call it that too. I just always say I lost the will to live but eh, tomato tomato >

Maybe consider that you’re not as into video games as you were as a kid. It’s perfectly normal to not have the time and energy as an adult. I still play call of duty and sometimes I’ll be bored within a couple hours without any fault to the game. 
Besides, there’s tons of games out there indie or AAA that you haven’t touched before that could be your next favorite game. >

Hell I had much more fun playing halo 4 many years ago than I did with Zelda Ocarina of Time a few months ago, even though objectively OoT is like, infinitely better designed, and easier to come back to today, compared to the mess of a game that was halo 4, it was an absolute fucking masterpiece. 
Yet I enjoyed it less and it's almost certainly due to the fact that I'm older and more depressed than when I was a kid who just got an Xbox 360 and any video game you gave me would've been a masterpiece in my eyes. 
Age is honestly one of the biggest factors in terms of enjoyment when it comes to any media and I wish people would stop the whole "old thing good new thing bad" circlejerk cuz the best games releasing today are undeniably an improvement over what was releasing decades ago.