Oh, don't be ridiculous. Herve Caen simply refused to pay his employees, even after a fucking court order. Regardless of Corith's status within Interplay, that's not the sign of a good businessman in any way.
Except, that they are unable to create a game on intellectual level of Fallout, including the story and the world.
They already have proven that they can't see subtle things like wars are being fought for resources, even when on surface it seems that it's "a simple psychotic rage". They give us cursing, senseless destruction, mega weapons, etc.
Not to mention inability to create a blue nuca-cola.
Blue Nuka-Cola notwithstanding, Emil Pagiarulo has always seemed to be articulate and intelligent in the interviews and such that I've seen him in. The man also worked on Thief, and I challenge you to find another divergent-history world in gaming that was more mature than that (other than, of course, our favorite divergent-history world).
Except that it seems, that a lot of decisions like adding things like Fatman, toilet drinking, etc. are made by someone else. Also, the eXtreme psychotic intro text was possibly made by someone else too. Also, it would explain, why Emil Pagiarulo had to "come to terms" with what they are doing to Fallout .