Sure, but you're comparing the best of game dev to the worst of software dev. That is an unfair comparison. I work on a crypto exchange app, with hundreds of thousands of users buying and selling crypto. We take user feedback seriously, we iterate hard on performance and stability, and I go home knowing that I make a product people like using.

I think you have a really warped sense of what the average software job is really like.

What about embedded systems designers? What about machine/traffic control systems? What about cutting edge stuff like tik tok's recommendation algorithm (which disregarding the politics, has to be marvelled at for its ability to pair users with content they like)?

There is more out there than just Big 4 corporate paper shuffling to make the suits in head office more money..