In 2021,rumourswere circulating that the next GTA would be set in a modern take on Vice City.
Well, the Bloomberg report corroborates this.
The report says this is a move by Rockstar management to reduce crunch towards the end of development.

Bloomberg spoke to more than 20 current and former Rockstar employees for their report into the companys working culture.
The cultural clean-up operation has apparently influenced the next GTAs development in other ways.
A female protagonist would be a first for the nearly quarter of a century old series.

The Bloomberg report makes for interesting reading in the wider context of crunch throughout the games industry.