100% and I think you hit the nail on the head with gardening vs. Pokemon. Adult hobbies are supposed to be productive, because adults are supposed to be productive every waking hour. So adults get to have hobbies like gardening, woodworking, or fixing cars, which produce something. Children get hobbies like games, toys, or collections, which consume things, because children are unproductive leeches on society.
Except anyone who's done adult hobbies (esp. anyone who's tried to monetize such a hobby while keeping it casual) knows that most of those are a way bigger money hole than any kids' hobby. Gardening is a blast, but my payoff is 2 lumpy zucchini and a comically small bell pepper. Yay, now my family won't starve.
On a more individual level, I think people who yuck your yum for enjoying Pokemon are jealous that you didn't buy into the mindset, and you're enjoying things that they were pressured to leave behind.
The leftist thing is definitely true too. They see consumerism as a red flag and immediately jump on it. And there's a Nirvana fallacy common with leftists that if you're not doing everything perfectly, then you're the problem. And they fall into the same productivity trap that enjoying something unproductive is time that could have been spent building your community or taking direct action or whatever. But all that said, I see this way less frequently from the left, and generally leftists are happy to find a new unproductive person to join their DnD group.
California has a minimum wage for software employees to be salaried and not pay them overtime (salaried exempt). It's about $123k. I've never seen an entry level position that didn't expect overtime, so $110k is actually low unless it's a part time internship.
Also leaving that link there for anyone who might have just discovered their employer is doing wage theft and owes them a lot of money.