I dunno. I see many “grown ups” replacing video game time with just more time scrolling on their phones, or maybe on the TV watching YouTube or some streaming service.

I think playing (some) video games can be a bit better for your brain vs. the above alternatives. At least many of them require thought and/or coordination.

Again, there are exceptions, where they’re not much better than doom scrolling. But it’s not hard to find some that require some effort and thought.

That's me, 2 kids and no time to game. Yet find 2 hours to doomscroll twitter every day.

Same but with 1 kid and different websites (including HN, which is equally bad!). Actively fighting it though. Slowly removing all social media accounts, now just need to figure out how to block stuff permanently on my phone. On a desktop I did it with changing my hosts file to point everything to 127.0.0.1. Need to figure out how to do this also on mobile without an additional network device that would disrupt things for my wife.

Are those 2 hours of doomscrolling consecutive? That's the big difference in finding time to game.