Drawing and painting help you look at things differently; it improves motor skills (probably most important for young and old, but has some value for everyone), etc.

> In the same way I could say that drawing and painting only makes you better at drawing and painting.

Absolutely and it's highly subjective. For years, I prefered playing video games to everything else. But now I'd rather see myself as a painter than a gamer.

This is not a question of things being better or worse generally speaking. It's a question what's good for oneself.

I agree. If I no longer had any enjoyment or feeling of improvement in gaming I'd probably find something else too.