There is a glut of games, for sure, with no easy way to filter them and no promise of a game I will actually enjoy.
Has there ever been a time of the "promise of a game I will actually enjoy"?
Back in the day all you had was rare magazine articles, and one wall of a Toys R Us with flaps consisting of the front of the box on one side and the back of the box on the other.
I'm not sure I see that as preferable to the modern situation.