As someone with a lot of close friends and acquaintances over at Discord who have a ton of experience with gacha games and grind fests, I can tell you most games are designed to suck you off dry mentally. We have a joke “X game took our souls away”.
I have been a 4 year old Dokkan player, perhaps top 2 or 3 gachas globally, and it is the only F2P friendly gacha I know of that treats F2P players nicely instead of treating them like COD Mobile (stupid rank grind) or Genshin (bad summon rates) or DB Legends (absolute monstrous p2w design with metas changed every month) or Fate (bad summon rates) or 7ds (weird game) and so on. Most of it comes down to predatory gambling and forceful grinds that are extremely time investing.
It seems wrong though to quantify entertainment as a job. How can you explain any form of entertainment as a job, when it is leisure? Calling leisure a job is straight up some dystopian robotic slavery shit. And this article writer is a shithead if they really believe in what story they are trying to sell here.
When kids exchange socialization with other kids and instead of enjoy the day stay in a room playing 8h a day is unhealthy both mentally/physically
All people do not play 8 hours a day. I used to do that as a kid in my Counter Strike days on servers with Red Bull, a Lays bag and my chair, and I got over it quickly. Even kids do not keep doing that.
I hate generalisation. ARGHH why can people not stop generalising every damn thing in life and society?