This is so ridiculous. We saw the very end of the game’s growth, the plateau, then the decline.
You can look at numbers alone, but when you look at trends you can grasp a better idea of what is going on. Here, take the rate of change of growth. That actually became negative at the time of RDF’s release.
It’s like saying an economy grew under one President wildly, then grew for 3 months into the next’s presidency before it quickly plateaued and precipitously toppled. Then saying “see President 2 was even BETTER because of the growth ON TOP OF what President 1 did”