Couldn't agree more, imo game studios have all the downsides of a large software company with pretty much none of the benefits, the sooner they unionise and get treated like humans the better.
There needs to be an Industry-wide game production union, with all the developers and artists together as a single global political force. That would RADICALLY change crunch abuses.
Unions could also help in the world of game studios, to stop the deeply harmful practice of "crunch".