This is the key. People forget that GamerGate was the response by a dying media format to preserve it's reader base through political division, that they hoped would create ideological loyalists, and future-proof them as more radically left generations of consumers were born.

The exact opposite has happened, not because Gamers defeated the media, but because economics favored the gamers more than the media.

I don't reject games as art, but there's clearly games that are not art, and that's okay.