I think you have this precisely backwards. Soulless crunch work in the video game industry as a code monkey given no creative control over the game is more likely to kill your interest in playing video games. If regular boring non-videogame office work killed people's interest in games, there would hardly be a market for videogames at all; who would buy them?

I let this sentiment keep me in the games industry for 20 years. Since I left I’ve had no trouble finding challenging and fun work, for better pay and no overtime. Wish I had left sooner

Your soul can be crushed in any industry, though, and every type of job can burn you out and make you lose your creativity. It's up to each of us to watch out for ourselves.

What is quest design if not heaps of business logic with a different name.