I kept trying to think up the best way to make a longer answer, but it would have been a wall of text. So, in short, I think you're right that games are actually part of it. I quit multiplayer games around when that chart started going wrong because the fun factor was just gone and it was skins, loot boxes, battle passes, etc. now. The fun release for kids these ages in video games is not there in the same way it was for me at those ages, and good luck getting a teenager to try some old game like I play. Games are just another form of consumption now. Think about a kid that age, consoom Youtube, consoom social media, consoom in video games. How many of them is this their entire life?
I kept trying to think up the best way to make a longer answer, but it would have been a wall of text. So, in short, I think you're right that games are actually part of it. I quit multiplayer games around when that chart started going wrong because the fun factor was just gone and it was skins, loot boxes, battle passes, etc. now. The fun release for kids these ages in video games is not there in the same way it was for me at those ages, and good luck getting a teenager to try some old game like I play. Games are just another form of consumption now. Think about a kid that age, consoom Youtube, consoom social media, consoom in video games. How many of them is this their entire life?