Personal anecdotical evidence prove nothing.
You don't treasure your free time, I do. I have gaming level PC with 7900xtx but I loathe any serious gaming on it beside some smaller one like gacha as it's always some issues here and there. I don't want to troubleshoot, traverse internet in search of solutions etc. I left IT 20 years ago and never looked back.
And I can troubleshoot (just don't want), a lot of people can't. I have quite some friends who are non-hardcore, semi-casual gamers and who never were involved with IT - their skills with PC are those of housewife, and they for sure will not spend huge amount of time to gitgud with PC gaming woes.