[setr]

Just because you like painting doesn’t mean you’re interested in the art industry, or making a career out of it...

Gamedev pools together a large collection of backgrounds that makes development appealing to.. a lot of hobbies. And its also one of those subjects (some) users invest a lot of time into, both in playing and discussing, so its easy to feel you have the general knowledge of the outcome that its viable to create a “good” game; and particularly for programming, it crosses through a lot of domains — you can find reason to implement compilers, ML, graphics, a huge array of data structures, dynamic programming, any language paradigm (and any language), a full set of “patterns”, etc.

Tbh its harder to find reasons why a programmer-hobbyist wouldnt find something interesting in game development.

Its really easy to find reason you wouldn’t want to be in the industry (its an absolutely pathetic state of affairs)