It's after he accused them of having no top flight talent. I don't think he's excusing them for it...

On the "25 year" thing, I agree with Moore, and I really don't see a point to doing prequels and sequels to Watchmen without the original creative team.  The book was intended to be a showcase for various ideas Moore had about superheroes, and the characters themselves were basically his takes on various superhero tropes.  Aside from niggling background details, you could effectively do a Rorschach series with a new character and most of the audience would think you're doing a take on Batman.  Almost anything you could do with Silk Spectre could be done as a Black Canary series.  Etc., etc. 

At the same time, he was referring to his work on Marvelman, which was a revival of an old character, and Watchmen, which started out as a revival of old characters until Dick Girodano asked him to use new ones instead.  So complaining about using pre-existing characters to tell your stories instead of coming up with something on your own just seems a tad hypocritical to me.

Weither DC are warped people who play games or not, I don't understand why he doesn't just take the money from Watchmen and help out Steve Moore with it.

I don't think the current DC regime is remotely interested in creating anything new, they seem completely focused on repackaging their existing catalogue to a new audience.  From a company standpoint, I see their angle: why have all the hassles of creator-ownership like, say, 'Watchmen' when they already have a massive back catalogue of existing characters and concepts to try and exploit?

As a fan, though, I'd much rather see new ideas, which is I really don't read anything Marvel or DC are putting out.

That's not true, is it?