>>718504819
There's no time to spare for it.
You either play some vidya in your limited time off and risk getting attached to it and wanting to spend more time on it that you don't have, or you use the time to deal with life's problems (bills, shopping, networking, cleaning, etc.) or use it on sleep, other hobbies (e.g. gunpla, drawing, sculpting, video and photography, local travel, in-person games like TCGs, etc.), or effort to improve your situation (i.e. education or training). Video games are a huge time investment despite how some people think of them as "I'll hop on for an hour or two after work and then sleep" and the kind of games most popular right now are mostly two extremes, mobile games and long open world games/endless competitive games. The former demands short sessions but constant reengagement, the latter demands a lot of time and some people simply don't want to get leashed to either option via fomo or lack of progress in lieu of their other problems and interests. There's a lot of things competing for a very thin slice of pie right now for everyone, and to a lesser extent it's even partially true for many people outside of Japan too.

TLDR people are busy and don't want to waste their time making 1% progress in Elden Ring or doing gacha dailies.