Declining attention spans could be one reason. Another potential hypothesis "is that the increasing negativity, polarization, intrusiveness, and emotional manipulation in social media has created a persistent cognitive overload on the finite cognitive resources we have."
Survey of 1.7 million found that "67% of gamers today (worldwide) "care less about strategic thinking and planning when playing games than the average gamer back in June 2015" https://www.ign.com/articles/gamers-are-becoming-less-interested-in-games-with-deep-strategy-study-finds?utm_source=press.coop IGN :press: (npub1485…rghl)
Here's the report from Quantic Foundry: https://quanticfoundry.com/2024/05/21/strategy-decline/