>"That's a big hitch with digital games. They are inferior to physical games in showing how and why the player’s inputs produced the outputs that they did. I cannot really see the model, nor access it to modify to improve to my understanding of history or the world."

Intuitively, I don't agree with this, but I'm not sure what the actual argument is. My sense is that he was making a statement about his own mentation but couching it as a statement about humanity. Rather strong bias if so.