Ironically other than the fact that you have to pay per game and that you’re often forced to die, I prefer arcade games. They generally minimize friction to play
edit: to clarify, I mean games with good graphics specifically. There are many great games (especially indie) out there.
Paying for lives was the first micro transaction!
I don't really have time for really long games anymore and these are as entertaining as movies IMO.
Many games seem to transition into more movie-like experience. Assassins Creed games for example, I found at some point I prefer to watch someone play it who cuts out the filler (while providing limited & entertaining commentary) and its just like a movie.
Similarly there have been so many health systems in FPS games you don’t need to invent something particularly new, but you do need to pick something appropriate to the gameplay. For example in PvE players need to be able to fight waves of enemies but in PvP games nobody wants to stand for 30 seconds firing at a bullet sponge.
Puzzle games need interesting puzzles, racing games need appropriate tracks, and so forth.
asking for good graphics seems ironical since you complain about devs focusing on graphics instead of gameplay
IME games do. But then I also don’t play any shooters.