>There's a lot more variety to choose from

Like what? I mean, the fact that now its the same thing but with phone gachaslop with terrible lore and worse gameplay conceivable, simcade games like War Thunder, ADHD-driven hypercasual mobile games, and so?

But tbh i can understand your point because 2007-2015 advertisement was too focused on this kind of thing and we only got "tired of it" recently, but if you look at unique games from now and then you will find as much then as now! And seriously i recommend it but its a bit hard to explain it as autism is more tree-thinking than cause-consequence-thinking, but you can try tricking your algorythms and use a lot of before tools and lurking