I almost think Live is the more interesting documentary because it's GOATed on the Genesis, stays solid on PS1, then is absolute trash during early days of PS2, recovers again eventually, and then same process happens on 360/PS3.
2K was always just various forms of good to then eventually becoming insanely good by the time 360 hits.
But yeah, still think there's a narrative issue once you get to a certain point with a 2K (or even Live) documentary.
To me, Madden documentary is good for the first couple episodes but once the only villain/foil is EA then it falls apart because it basically has to skip 15 years to present day. After all, the only narrative thread is exclusivity/EA/NFL as the only real foils/villains/antagonists to bounce off of and that's not going to exactly get greenlit for an EA-backed documentary.