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This happened to me in Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims.
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The analogy makes a lot of sense to me. Once you have an "easy button", it's hard to not use it. It's sort of like when you're at work and see the "quick workaround" effectively become the standard process.
I remember burning out on games because the cheats made them really fun in the short term, but afterward playing normally felt like agony.
But the process of "get the answer from another source instead of figuring it out" is the same
We're entering an era where we need to decide where some lines are drawn.
How much prior understanding is acceptable to incorporate into our reasoning? If the answer has already been figured out, is it reasonable to use that, or should you do the work a second time?
If you consider figuring out how to play a game to be "work," what are you even doing playing that game?