I used to know a guy who was asked to explain himself when he referred to his game dev job as “selling crack to kids”. That was just over a decade ago, before the Cow Clicker clones got going.

I do think many games isn't so good. (That is Sturgeon's Revelation.) Also to consider what is written on ZZT when the program terminates, there is one of two pages possible one is complain about such game with "flashy but meaningless graphics" and other problems they have.