Yes. Smartphones fucked up everyone's attention spans.

It's funny. I definitely feel like I had the opposite problem in the 2000's. I'd say I wanted to run a certain TTRPG and my players would run out and buy/pirate all the books and end up knowing more about the setting than me and have insane combos I hadn't anticipated. Now it feels like people really want their hand held through in-game tutorials(and then they complain about being bored or still feeling lost because they can't be bothered to do any homework). I even had one guy get mad I didn't prompt him to buy better gear. There's tons of lore, tutorial, and actual play stuff on YouTube but good luck getting people to use any of it.