I refer to the concept of patching a game so hard that it's basically replaced by another game that's actually fun as the "Diablo 3/Final Fantasy 14 Method." For more recent examples, the big ones I know of are No Man's Sky and Fallout 76. I haven't personally played NMS, but FO76's two years of updates made it a better Fallout game that FO4 in most respects... which isn't that high a bar, but compared to how it started, it's a massive improvement.