This sentiment still gets a chuckle out of me, and always will. It's just completely wrong. IGN (their general staff, their managers, and their executives) had absolutely ZERO say in any decision Humble ever made. I promise you this. If you want to get mad at anyone for Humble's changes, get mad at Jeff Rosen and John Graham for selling their company to J2 Global (but don't actually get mad at them because they were awesome leaders, and built a great company that has donated over $200M to charity since its inception. I'd work for them again in a heartbeat).
When Jeff and John left Humble, J2 installed a guy named Alan Patmore as the new GM. While he was a pretty nice guy, and has a background in game development, he marched to J2's drum, and their first order of business was to juice the subscription (the subscription was the reason J2 acquired Humble at the end of the day). Get more users, raise the price, and put games in the subscription that our Biz Dev folks didn't have to pay developers as much for (increase margins). This is largely why you got Humble Choice at $20 / month with the perceived content quality drop, and never saw another CoD / Spyro / Crash month ever again (and never will).
I repeat: IGN never had a say in ANY Humble business decision. They never wanted a say. They did give us free ad space on their site a few times, but that's the extent of the two companies mixing on a business level. The only thing people should give IGN shit about is their Smash Bros. Ultimate game. They always lost during our inter-office tournaments. IGN is full of really nice people, and their old office kicked legitimate ass. So sad to hear it got let go during Covid.