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>>4686824
It's because indie devs are talentless losers. A good artist can produce decent art with just about any tool. You could even give him a pad of binder paper and a crappy #2 pencil and he'll still be able to produce something that will be fun to look at .

A bad artist will fail with any tool you give him. But given a choice between different tools he'll choose the tool that's easiest to work with. Indie 2D artists don't go with low res pixel art because they like it, they are doing it because it's easier to work with than higher resolution 2D art and modern 3D art. Sort of like how children will prefer crayola and construction paper to gimp and a top quality tablet.