Some adults happen to have a life outside of their computer, and thus have little time to video game. Having a life outside of a computer is correlated with things like families and serious & involved hobbies - things people develop well later in life...

I mean... Yes?

But honestly, if you can't pick up the basics of factorio in a few minutes you're less qualified than the nine-year-olds and sixty-year-olds I've taught programming to. No background in programming or software development at all. That's a very low standard.

And yes, I've used factorio in those lessons as a tool. It's great for teaching refactoring in a visual way with no code at all. I usually set a class homework project involving the factorio demo. It works well.

It's really not that hard to play factorio.

Ok. With all that said and even with all those happy experiences I still wouldn't use factorio for interviews because I think leetcode and similar are also bad approaches. Same with algorithm questions. They're out as well.

what a fucked up assumption that every should understand the game. what if i don't like games. never played one but also never had any issues with calculus. well i can say it's a f** up thing dum people needs gaming to learn maths.

And how is that different than solving esoteric algorithmic problems?