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Logo uses joystick by liftarn
The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process.
I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.
Sometimes the game is just annoying about certain things / buggy. Especially in older games
Looking at you Morrowind and your Dwemer puzzle box
An excellent opportunity to reference a bit of true Internet culture: Old Man Murray's dressdown of one of the puzzles in Gabriel Knight 3. The most relevant part is their final summary:
https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/79.html
Edit: oh, I find out now that this puzzle even has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle
That was the one where you had to use cat hair to add a mustache to a fake ID to impersonate a character that had no mustache? Yeah, I don't really miss moon logic.