It would be nice to fast-forward beyond this gaming era in which microtransactions take the form of purchasing your way past one level of rote gameplay mechanic

It would be nice to fast-forward beyond this gaming era in which microtransactions take the form of purchasing your way past one level of rote gameplay mechanics only to arrive at a higher level of the same rote gameplay mechanics. And in which these companies thrive because players haven't figured out how empty their games are.