Rant on current games (Long read)

I know I'll probably get a lot of blow back for this and this will be a rant on games in general as well. I'm someone who was never all that great at video games but I enjoyed many while growing up. I recently played a game that made me realize, either I'm getting old or that the current gaming developers are catering more towards serious gamers these days. I played DL2 (Dying Light 2: Stay Human) and I probably got to about 65 percent progress before I finally called it quits. I'll give my specific reasons before I go into how I feel gaming in general has changed from my perspective and why it's become less enjoyable. It's not the common reasons of having less time, more responsibilities and all that stuff, although true, mine has to do with the games itself

Reasons for disliking DL2:

1. The game feels 'grindy', as in repetitive tedious "missions" that feel more like a chore, less like an enjoyable game

2. It has such great scenery to explore but hard to do that when you have zombies especially at night that try to chase and kill you at literally every turn (this one is more debatable because I do understand this particular game is meant to be a "horror", so that kind of stuff is to be expected

3. People claimed that this game was almost too easy (maybe this is just me getting old) but I disagree. I played on easy mode and it was one of if not the hardest game I ever played. I feel this is an obvious way for people to brag, when something is hard just calling it too easy makes you look better

4. The parkour mechanics are pretty shit, had to button mash a lot of the times just to not fall to my death

5. Your average regular person who happens to game, who isn't a pro or just a serious gamer, plays story mode for the story but it's hard to find motivation to complete a mission when the character you are forced to play as continuously gets socked in the face/sucker punched in every single cut scene without fail and tries to please everyone without receiving any favors back when he has his own agenda and goals to fulfill. That makes the story less enjoyable as well.

Now a lot of these can be chalked up to "lack of skill" and I don't fully disagree with that. I do think part of why this game wasn't enjoyable was because as I said, I'm not that great gaming, never have been but in my opinion there is still a clear difference to how gaming was back in the day and I'm not talking 1994 Atari shit. I mean back when I had my PS2 for example, video games felt like a leisure, something you can kick back and enjoy where it was challenging enough to keep you engaged and immersed in the game but wasn't so grindy where it felt like am absolute chore. Most games today feel like the writing is lazy or doesn't make any sense, (because they too hard to be deep and it ends up just being sloppy) the mechanics are shit, some how the graphics have gotten even worse over time which I don't understand how that happens (with exception to certain games like RDR 2 (Red Dead Redemption 2) and a lot of modern games just feel way too grindy. Most objectives in today's games feel like a fetch fest where you're running around like an errand boy/girl for every person you encounter. It sucks the fun out of the game itself. I'm sure for pro gamers or even non pro but serious gamers are rolling their eyes right now but I used to enjoy games even as someone who wasn't very good. The easy mode today feels like the hardest difficulty of even 10 years ago. This is why I quit gaming for some time (recently got back into it but I'm more selective about what games I'll choose to play) because I wasn't enjoying them anymore. I'm sorry for the long rant. I know that's not common here, at least I don't think but I just wanted to share my thoughts about this. You don't have to agree with me. I also know that I could play less cinematic type games, but games like Minecraft or "mobile app" games like that don't intrigue me. So yeaa