> ... so you see a lot of game devs slavishly applying it to their code in hopes that the "go as fast as a AAA game" Gods will land on their runway and deliver the goods.

I watched this sentence unfold with bated breath, waiting to yell "and ze sticks the landing!", only to see it end with "goods" instead of "cargo". It's frustratingly close to perfect, though perhaps to end the paragraph with "cargo", you'd have to begin with some synonym for cargo culting.