I have a feeling that you two are younger than GameHouse is. They have been known as one of the three old large casual game platform/publishers next to Big Fish Games and (the now defunct) Reflexive Arcade.

The time manager series you are trying to accuse of being asset flips is so damn old and venerated within its genre that it has its own wikipedia page by now. The linked titles do not even cover half of the series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(game_series)

The only thing you can actually accuse Delicious of is that it was obviously riding the coattails of the Diner Dash series, but eventually outlasted it. Some would argue that Delicious now is an even more famous series than Diner Dash was.

I think Steam is now mostly filed away as a collection of low-grade trash and the platform most AAA games get released at for the sole reason of sheer habit. But since those junk games are featured on everyone's carousel and main page, I kinda doubt they will ever come back from this.

And they will not do anything since they are a monopoly, and by the time someone manages to create a viable competition, it will be way too late with Valve's reaction times.
I have no idea who will do it and when, but it will happen eventually. Parts of me wish GOG would be that, but I almost fear that amazon will just pump Twitch up and make it their global game distribution platform, and that would put us into a worse situation than Valve at the helm of this market.

These did not look like asset flips, this is why I suspected DigiHom. Otherwise yes, Zonitron would have come to mind.

Because TSS Studio's products sure as hell remind me the amount of effort, creativity, and quality put into those games. And the release frequency is also about the same.
https://steamhost.cn/search/?developer=TSS%20Studio

Because they are an American company, and in the US, showing some tits is an act of Satan, but making money of literally anything until it gets shut down by the authorities is a commendable sign of an enterprising spirit.

Alas, this is a very old story in entertainment in general. I have to agree on the principle of that it is getting more and more difficult to find the honest small-scale devs on Steam nowadays. I guess this is the reason these devs are now trying to increase itch.io's presence and market share.

Is this developer/publisher on the radar of the group yet?
https://steamhost.cn/search/?developer=CSM
https://steamhost.cn/search/?publisher=W.T.B.

It is one thing that his games are shitty in an almost literal sense, but it seems his latest masterpiece managed to break a few more walls in terms of quality.
https://steamhost.cn/app/750210/

It is one thing that takes like 0.2 picoseconds to realise that this has to be a Russian meme game, but apart from being a simple art flip of Wolfenstein 3D, apparently it got a step beyond:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/750210/discussions/0/1483235412198221847/

That is sadly commonplace among small indie studios, especially who tether on the edge of legality. Exploiting the workers in the worst kind of way has always been a large staple on all segments on the entertainment industry.

So, take your bets: can they do some anime bundles to create enough ownership with the fake hope of adding cards, or will the original art owners find out about their practise and file a few claims at Valve?

My non-existing money would go to one bundle before the sword swings.

I'll be frank: this is getting actually funny.