Woodworking will leave you with skills, experience and a wider physical social circle at best or re-sellable tools and a story to tell at worst.

Simping is more like an alcohol consumption - damaging and the first step is acknowledging a problem exists, often through an intervention.

Our societies do regulate how people can spend their time and money in certain regards. I don't think that's necessarily wrong. Smoking is banned, some countries have labeling for unhealthy products, and so on. Things can end up affecting other people in the long run, so I don't think it's unreasonable to contemplate addressing stuff like this.

I think the main issues overall are encouraging parasocial relationships, and also the problem of selling sex to kids. I'm no prude but I think it raises some ethical questions when you have gaming content and sexual content in the same spot. If I had kids, that would matter to me.