>>96219018
The wargamer simulationist dorks lost this battle many years ago. Picrel is Gygax whining about too much story in arpee 40 years ago.
People have always done story games, that why there's so many fantasy and sci-fi franchises that started off as someone's personal campaign(Dragonlance, Lodoss War, The Expanse, etc).
Besides, if you just want a tactical challenge where you bash some monsters and try to survive a dungeon, don't video games do that way better these days?