[Ace777]

Unity dev here. I loathe mobile ad-driven games as well, but unfortunately Mobile dev is a numbers game. There is a gargantuan pool of regular joe-type people to whom ad-driven games are normality. Power users like you or I rarely play these things.

It's all about optimizing the (user) funnel rather than the fun. If you don't you're at odds with google/apple, the platform operator, who usually promotes based on market performance.

So even if I were to make a fun mobile game where you have no advertisement or a t least a way to nuke the adverts, there's no customer base specifically looking for that, and if there was my game would be buried under a mountain of shit and i'd have to manually buy users ... so that 95% of them never buy the ad-free option...

Really the only option that prioritizes fun for mobile is bringing in an external audience.