It's just a Netflix for games. Many people who don't really want to invest time (or so they think) are a new market that opened since games stopped to be a nerds' shit. And it doesn't end with the game itself: many play Fortnite or Genshin for social communications about it, it's fandom and peer pressure. You could've seen that with the last episodes of Lost that were making news and got discussed everywhere, you see it now. And no wonder it's then gets more publicity, because that's what average person consumes.

Obviously, there's a big red flag of capitalism perfecting it's hooks, now in the mainstream. But there's still a market for more engaging games. Souls-likes could've been dead in the water if TRU GAMIN has vanished, BG3 sales show that AAA can thrive, Dead Stranding kinda plays with that visible lack of gameplay while adding Kojima's shenanigans, Devolver Digital still greenlits cool projects without bullshit. And games that try to marry classic IPs with some form of gacha\gambling fail like Diablo: Immortal or Owerwatch 2, because most CEOs are fortunately incappable of understanding their shit.

I feel like your general message of not supporting these practices is kind of misguided because the crowds who play Genshin\PUBG\whatever doesn't often intersect with those who play non-casual games, and they probably aren't represented on Lemmy that much.