That's also what it felt like to me, the 1st season too big of a success out of nowhere that it was too good of an opportunity to milk some more money out of it.

If you loved the first Squid Game season, you should check out Alice In Boarderlands. The setup is very similar with games where you either live and move on or die but it's so much better and the story is fully finished after 2 season with a satisfying ending and so many great orginal games especially in the 2nd season.

cheers,