Is is though? What’s the point. You’re in front of a screen during the best years of your life attempting to get good at something that is at the end of it trivial from a lot of perspectives. It’s kind of indistinguishable from smoking pot and sitting in front of your TV.
That being said, I’ve followed the scene for 6 years and always found it very interesting to watch.
I guess I could have qualified it with might be very rewarding. A lot of people go to Uni and feel like they've largely wasted 4-8 years of their life and compromised their financial future as well. Tetris is a relatively innocuous pursuit.
Pot and TV can be fun too, and is mostly indistinguishable from what most Suburbanites do in their late twenties anyway. In my view you want to teach your kids how to assess if something has become a destructive obsession.
Likewise, if the kid is objectively good and entertaining, there is a market for it just like any other
That being said, I’ve followed the scene for 6 years and always found it very interesting to watch.