Certain demographics of people fucking love efficiency. Seeing a task done in a manner that is super fluid and making big number go up feels fucking great.
This is across multiple genres. Pikmin 4 just did the same thing so heavily it used the word "dandori" untranslated to push the meme of it. Clicker/idle games use it to see big numbers go up. RCT uses it to give management simulation a go. Palworld is literally a survival crafting game but with slaves to do the crafting for you.
You are looking at symptoms instead of the root, likely because you have a chronic case of "I don't like it therefore its stupid and ruining the industry," which is why you are missing the dopamine spikes it gives to people who love it.
Certain demographics of people fucking love efficiency. Seeing a task done in a manner that is super fluid and making big number go up feels fucking great.
This is across multiple genres. Pikmin 4 just did the same thing so heavily it used the word "dandori" untranslated to push the meme of it. Clicker/idle games use it to see big numbers go up. RCT uses it to give management simulation a go. Palworld is literally a survival crafting game but with slaves to do the crafting for you.
You are looking at symptoms instead of the root, likely because you have a chronic case of "I don't like it therefore its stupid and ruining the industry," which is why you are missing the dopamine spikes it gives to people who love it.