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Great! I like games that I can actually complete in a reasonable amount of time. Padding a game just to make it longer makes it a chore to play.
You act like there isn't a difference between quality content and 100s of hours of gathering collectables...
The only game I've played that actually has 100+ hours of quality content is Persona 5.
Every other single player game trying to give me more than ~30 hours of stuff to do ended up being a chore.
I think part of it is that there is an ideal time commitment for story driven games and it is between 5 and 30 hours. It's similar for movies, where the ideal range is 90 t o150 minutes. There can be exceptions, made by particularly skilled people, but just because I enjoy the 4-hour cut of Return of the King does not mean I want the next Marvel or DC movie to be that long.