> I’ve worked at multiple jobs where I barely interacted with the subject matter.

You are completely right.

My point is that is the same for video games than any other subject.

And following your example, you may join a video game company and still spend all your time fixing bugs on the code for translations and subtitles or adding support for a button that publishes videos to social media.

It depends on the size of the company and your position within it. But, many subjects are enjoyable.

I’ve quite enjoyed building plenty of apps that where boring old crud webapps. It’s more engaging if you try to understand how all the seemingly meaningless data is actually used.