‘My normative opinion is objective’ really underlines the problem.
As does calling an argument reductive before reducing it to ‘it is bad.’
And then focusing on the word “addictive” when the actual argument is, this entire business model is fucking nonsense that sells literally worthless things for real money, in a way that is fundamentally unethical specifically because tricking people into valuing arbitrary garbage is what games are for. That’s what makes them games! I’ve only mentioned addiction as an example of the manipulation used to gouge people as hard as possible in spite of their better judgement. It is a how. The problem is why.
If that sounds like ‘well I just don’t like it,’ fuck off.