In many videogames, one can compensate for the lack of mechanical skills by enduring boredom. This known by different words in different genres: farming, grinding, macroing. Often there’s still quite a bit of skill involved, but it’s not the skill that people usually associate with the game. You will not meaningfully improve on the core skills when playing like this. In multiplayer games especially, strategies built around exploiting your boredom endurance get weaker when competition gets more intense, as more and more people partake in that. This is a good thing.
The most important games where this applies are education and employment.
In many videogames, one can compensate for the lack of mechanical skills by enduring boredom. This known by different words in different genres: farming, grinding, macroing. Often there’s still quite a bit of skill involved, but it’s not the skill that people usually associate with the game. You will not meaningfully improve on the core skills when playing like this. In multiplayer games especially, strategies built around exploiting your boredom endurance get weaker when competition gets more intense, as more and more people partake in that. This is a good thing.
The most important games where this applies are education and employment.