Ah, I thought it was about the genre of action RPGs specifically - sorry about that, my mistake.

Yeah, rereading the question I'm not even sure what the interviewer meant. If he was combining the two genres, I can't imagine why he'd mention Diablo clones. But separately, I can see that RPGs and RTSs have gotten a little samey.

You know what actually was an RPG/RTS? Birthright! Bring it back!