Non sequitur. There’s no logical connection between the two statements

Unfortunately people conflate single-A games with indie games. (Probably because most indie games are also single-A games)

Remedy is definitely indie, but I’d consider them an AA studio

I think the weirder question to ask is how much publisher/investor pressure should there be for a game to no longer be considered indie. Because it seems to be that there’s many publishers that exert little to no control over a game’s contents, especially if the publisher is itself an indie game studio. For a while, as well, Microsoft seemed to have not applied any editorial pressure to any of the studios that they bought. So would these games (eg Ori) still be considered indie?