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This post is suspect.
Your experiences as a gamer will have little to do with the kind of decision making that yields billions of dollars at the margin. There are exceptions in the game space of overnight hits becoming cottage industries (Stardew Valley, Braid) but the way those liabilities are formed are much different. The developer is the tastemaker. They are almost industries of two types you shouldn't confuse if you want your claim to hold.
Why? Because both parents and teachers have more load than they can bear with kids already which also strains their ability to give emotional availability to the deeply irrational stage of being a human being with little intellectual capacity developed to cope.
I'd rather that instead of accusing "scientists" (which?) of being worthy of deep concern when you yourself have not taken into consideration this context as if the authorities in question are purely malicious.
They couldn't even modify the ad to show correct information for lying's sake.
It could be the same time spent, but not the same amount of cognitive effort.
FAANG sets tempo for salaries for every other company. Other companies might not reach that level of craziness, but many do end up near a similar bar.